202109251140 Play long-term games

Everything in here is a great #thread to pull on

The days are long but the decades are short.

In a lot of ways, our entire lives are unforgivably short. In other ways, they are long. We have the opportunity in some areas to play long-term games. We should be playing more long-term games and less short-term ones. Long term games take advantage of 202304102048 Compounding Interest.

• Investing is a game of long-term 202304102048 Compounding Interest.
• 202205231312 A Career is a long-term game of pace, people, prestige, profit, and learning.¹²
• Family and friends are a deeply rewarding long-term investment.
• 202304112152 Intellectual investment is like compound interest. Education is a high 202106221146 Leverage long-term game that can feed into other areas of your life.³ Study math, physics, chemistry, astronomy, probability, chance, risk, reward, uncertainty, humanity and its societies, externality bias.
• Consistent hard work over time will compound to the point that you'll be surprised how much you can achieve (202304102024 Great people have a great deal of drive to do great things).
• The 202308271610 Quarry workers' creed

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. — Thoreau, Walden. P36 (202112291821 The things we own end up owning us) A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can let alone. — Thoreau, Walden. P88 Pause! Avast! Why so seeming fast, but deadly slow? P103 Classics end of 108 Books are the treasured… 111 Loneliness relative to working p144-145 Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm besides which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. P338 except criticizing travel as a way to avoid thinking or being alone. I believe travel helps one chart interior and exterior Paragraph beginning “I learned this, …” on p341