Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-5012038-20130518014717/@comment-99.229.171.230-20130524004948

67.190.213.217 wrote: 99.229.171.230 wrote: I'm still stuck just under 1100. Well, another failure. HA! My former therapist would like a word with you. You scored 1100, beating out all but a small percentage of the tens of thousands of people playing this game and getting a pocketful of great rewards for your great performance. It's not a failure - you're just looking at it backwards, looking back from the finish line to see the the little bit you didn't get instead of looking ahead from the starting line to see the huge amount you did get. She would tell you that your goal should be to do very very well instead of to be perfect. Great job, buddy! You're among the best at this worldwide game.

I know that's not what anyone wants to hear when they want to win a game, but it's good advice to apply to the rest of life, which is also a competitive situation with lots of stacked levels of rewards for effort, with built in advantages for some, with unequal starting points, with the distorting effects of money, and with the aid and interference of random chance. C'est la vie.

Heh, ya, you're right. It's just disappointing that I was stuck at this rank 2 times in a row (basically so close yet so far), and that, based on this ranking system, there is no difference if I were 1001 or 2500. In other words, instead of being pressed for time at the end I could have just let the boat sail along with the waves and ended somewhere in the 2000s and be just as happy as I would be at 1100 (probably more happy since I wouldn't have had to go crazy towards the end of the event trying to boot myself up). But I get what you're saying, it's always good to see the positive side of things. :)