One thing I specially hate, hate doing is reading boardgame rules. Or following them. If somebody explains them to me in clear terms, I'll go along. But if it falls on me, one would rather strongly prefer sleep.
I was thinking about it, and wondering if boardgame enthusiasts are good at bureaucracy or dealing with complex system. Perhaps they value novelty so much, they can quickly comprehend the changing rules? Someone should really do a research study on how transferable boardgame skills are. It be such an amazing proxy of talent or ability, if you could test contestants by board games. Perhaps that's what people in the government did in the olden days. It's probably how the world is like at this day an age too.
Board games are boring, unless somebody explains them to you in clear terms, and makes you feel excited. The most valuable skill is to make people care about those rules: if they are excited, that's all the better. But what does one do if one literally doesn't care about gaming at all. What if somebody would rather rest than understand those rules and play the new boardgame.
We must think of life as a game, an infinite one, and try to figure out what the rules of life are that one is playing with. What is the game, exactly, and where might misapprehensions be?
Answering such questions will make one a better technical contributor and a much stronger leader!
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