Game theory pretty much proves that the long game is not a strategy most people can execute at all. That's because it tends to require a negative short-term position in exchange for a real advantage later. Most people cannot commit to this because their threat-detection system reads current loss as an existential failure. And that's vicious short-sightedness. It leads them to optimize for visible progress and sacrifice their real position. The people who constantly win rarely have better information. Instead, they accept that losing now will pay off later. Never quit a game before it starts.
@jt0hny You’ve got it so wrong the brunt of this is only felt by sub5 males and sub1 females (most of those are retarded so they don’t even feel it anyway). Htn males like this and sub2+ females are doing fine.
the difference between winners and losers is that while the loser is deciding, researching, and weighing pros and cons
the winner has already failed twice, pivoted, called 2 friends to get other perspectives, pulled an all nighter, iterated on the solution, pinpointed the culprit, refined his approach, and WON
If you want confidence, stop aiming to avoid failure. Aim to recover fast. Take the hit, learn the lesson, adjust, repeat. The man who can bounce back becomes fearless over time, because he trusts his ability to rebuild even when things go wrong.