“Play to win and win to play. Playing to win is one of the finest things you can do. It enables you to fulfill your potential. It enables you to improve the world and, conveniently, develop high expectations for everyone else too. And what if you lose? Just make sure you lose while trying something grand. Avinash Dixit, an economics professor at Princeton, and Barry Nalebuff, an economics and management professor at the Yale School of Organization and Management, say it this way: “If you are going to fail, you might as well fail at a difficult task. Failure causes others to downgrade their expectations of you in the future. The seriousness of this problem depends on what you attempt.” In its purest form, winning becomes a means, not an end, to improve yourself and your competition. Winning is also a means to play again. The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining. The rewards of winning – money, power, satisfaction, and self-confidence – should not be squandered. Thus, in addition to playing to win, you have a second, more important obligation: To compete again to the depth and breadth and height that your soul can reach. Ultimately, your greatest competition is yourself.” (more…)
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rssHow's that drink, anyway? Oh, it's stunning
You know the problem: You’re out at the bar with friends, and you just can’t figure out what you want to drink. Vodka? Rum? Or maybe you’re in a tequila mood. Well, thanks to the inventive folks at Stunna, now you don’t have to waste any time choosing which happy way to take to inebriety. The appropriately named Stunna liqueur will stun you, all right: It’s a blend of rum, tequila, vodka and (as though these three weren’t enough) “other fine spirits,” according to the company. There’s a bit of melon and citrus tossed in, perhaps to distract your taste buds from the fact that you’re sipping four drinks in one glass. Stunna’s debut press release suggests serving this stuff over ice—”no need to mix with anything else.” Yeah, no kidding. It also bills the drink as an aphrodisiac. Hmm. Seems to us that Stunna would be far more likely to lead to another kind of bedroom talk: “Honey, I have a headache.”
