Hey friend!Yesterday I posted a new video in which I shared a story that illustrates very well this concept of life being a single player game. I saw this story on a twitter post from the renown investor Jim O'Shaughnessy, as a comment to Naval's tweet:"Life is a single player game"Besides, I included a subset from a conversation btw Naval Ravikant and Kapil Gupta that is also related to this concept.Here you can find the transcript of the tweet from Jim (which holds the story), as well as some related quotes and my takeaways.✍️ Quotes“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.”- Joseph Campbell"Judge a man by his questions not his answers"- Voltaire“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform, pause or reflect.”- Mark Twain.👨 Naval RavikantNaval is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList.👨 Jim O'ShaughnessyInvestor and the founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, LLC, an asset management firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.👨 Kapil GuptaFounder of the company, 'Siddha Performance' that teaches humans to go beyond the boundaries and reach our minds up to their maximum capacity to take control over its unworldly superpowers. Most of his clients are world elites and a few hand-picked celebrities.📝 Transcript of Jim's tweet...The story concerns a man who comes to the door of "The Law" seeking admittance. The guard there refuses to allow him to pass the door, but says if the man waits long enough, someday in the uncertain future, he might gain admittance.The man grows older and tries to bribe the guard who takes it but doesn't allow him to enter. The man ends up selling everything he owns, gives it to the guard as a bribe which the guard also takes, but still refuses to allow the man to enter and says "I'm only taking this bribe so you do not abandon all hope."Finally, the man is old, ill and about to die, but musters the strength to confront the guard and say "I've been told that the law exists for all, why then has nobody else come here, seeking admittance?" The guard responds "This door has been made only for you. And now I'm going to close it forever." He then slams the door and the man dies. So, your tweet about life being a single player game made me think about this and how to make sense of it. In my idea, the door in the story is an analog for the "Gateless Gate" in Zen. And the guard is a metaphor for consensus reality, to which the man obviously adheres. After chasing entry to the door his entire life, he never even considered that the whole time he was asking permission of the guard, the door itself was wide open and that he could walk through it at anytime only *without* asking permission of the guard (consensus reality) and since it was only meant for him, it closes at his death.So what? My idea, which your tweet sparked, is a seeker of truth, can never gain enlightenment from another, or ask permission of another, or bribe another, or ask another to "enlighten" him/her, because that's something that can't be given by another, it can only be earned by the seeker themself. The door was always open until the time of the man’s death at which time, The door was closed and locked forever. The man was looking for instructions, for prescriptions on "10 ways to walk through the door of Justice" He was seeking a way in but asking all the wrong questions. He was "stopped" by his own reality tunnel (belief system) that told him he must follow "the rules" of social convention, perforce of "others" to get through the door, when, if he realized that life is a single player game, he would have ignored. By failing to understand that life is a single player game, he adhered to "game rules," or social conventions and beliefs, which forever blocked him from going through the open door because he conflated consensus reality with his own reality leading him to all the wrong paths. You must simply walk through it--the "door of the law" or the gateless gate--on your own. 🤓 Takeaways* Be conscious of what is truly real. Do not mix objective reality with social convention rules.* Forge your own path, rather than keep asking others how to do things forever.** If there is sufficient obsession, you will find the way.Link to the video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHMf7QTJ9Pc
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Hey friend!Yesterday I posted a new video in which I shared a story that illustrates very well this concept of life being a single player game. I saw this story on a twitter post from the renown investor Jim O'Shaughnessy, as a comment to Naval's tweet:"Life is a single player game"Besides, I included a subset from a conversation btw Naval Ravikant and Kapil Gupta that is also related to this concept.Here you can find the transcript of the tweet from Jim (which holds the story), as well as some related quotes and my takeaways.✍️ Quotes“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.”- Joseph Campbell"Judge a man by his questions not his answers"- Voltaire“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform, pause or reflect.”- Mark Twain.👨 Naval RavikantNaval is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList.👨 Jim O'ShaughnessyInvestor and the founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, LLC, an asset management firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.👨 Kapil GuptaFounder of the company, 'Siddha Performance' that teaches humans to go beyond the boundaries and reach our minds up to their maximum capacity to take control over its unworldly superpowers. Most of his clients are world elites and a few hand-picked celebrities.📝 Transcript of Jim's tweet...The story concerns a man who comes to the door of "The Law" seeking admittance. The guard there refuses to allow him to pass the door, but says if the man waits long enough, someday in the uncertain future, he might gain admittance.The man grows older and tries to bribe the guard who takes it but doesn't allow him to enter. The man ends up selling everything he owns, gives it to the guard as a bribe which the guard also takes, but still refuses to allow the man to enter and says "I'm only taking this bribe so you do not abandon all hope."Finally, the man is old, ill and about to die, but musters the strength to confront the guard and say "I've been told that the law exists for all, why then has nobody else come here, seeking admittance?" The guard responds "This door has been made only for you. And now I'm going to close it forever." He then slams the door and the man dies. So, your tweet about life being a single player game made me think about this and how to make sense of it. In my idea, the door in the story is an analog for the "Gateless Gate" in Zen. And the guard is a metaphor for consensus reality, to which the man obviously adheres. After chasing entry to the door his entire life, he never even considered that the whole time he was asking permission of the guard, the door itself was wide open and that he could walk through it at anytime only *without* asking permission of the guard (consensus reality) and since it was only meant for him, it closes at his death.So what? My idea, which your tweet sparked, is a seeker of truth, can never gain enlightenment from another, or ask permission of another, or bribe another, or ask another to "enlighten" him/her, because that's something that can't be given by another, it can only be earned by the seeker themself. The door was always open until the time of the man’s death at which time, The door was closed and locked forever. The man was looking for instructions, for prescriptions on "10 ways to walk through the door of Justice" He was seeking a way in but asking all the wrong questions. He was "stopped" by his own reality tunnel (belief system) that told him he must follow "the rules" of social convention, perforce of "others" to get through the door, when, if he realized that life is a single player game, he would have ignored. By failing to understand that life is a single player game, he adhered to "game rules," or social conventions and beliefs, which forever blocked him from going through the open door because he conflated consensus reality with his own reality leading him to all the wrong paths. You must simply walk through it--the "door of the law" or the gateless gate--on your own. 🤓 Takeaways* Be conscious of what is truly real. Do not mix objective reality with social convention rules.* Forge your own path, rather than keep asking others how to do things forever.** If there is sufficient obsession, you will find the way.Link to the video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHMf7QTJ9Pc