April 19, 2016 at 07:57PM
"Unless we believe we actually are the losers the audience sees us to be, we will not have the necessary desire to win." #readingToday


Unless we believe we actually are the losers the audience sees us to be, we will not have the necessary desire to win. The more negatively we assess ourselves, the more we strive to reverse the negative judgment of others. The outcome brings the contradiction to perfection: by proving to the audience they were wrong, we prove to ourselves the audience was right.

"Finite and Infinite Games" by James Carse

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