From The Desk of Maverick Brenton.
Subject: Playing Your Own Game.
I have a question for you my friendly friends.
It’s a question I like to ask myself every day.
It’s a question that you should ask yourself every day, because it’s a damn good question.
What’s my damn good question?
I’ll tell you if you really wanna know.
If you’re willing to sit down and listen and take it in.
Here she is:
Whose Game Are You Playing?
Now you’re probably wondering what the fuck that means and when I first heard it I was wondering the same thing…
So let me tell you.
In life there is your game and there is everyone else’s game.
Everyone else has their very own game too - just like you do.
But…
Most people only ever play someone else’s game and they never play their own game – just like you probably are now.
That’s why most people get shitty results in their life, in my opinion.
That’s why they never become who they have the potential to be.
They play the wrong game.
They play someone else’s game.
They try to be someone they are not.
Listen..
Your game is the most important thing in your life and so you must figure out what your game is.
What’s the game? What am I on about?
The game is YOU.
The game is what you are naturally good at and it is what you need to focus on.
It’s your natural talents and inclinations.
It’s your natural personality.
It’s your true self.
It’s who you really are.
That’s what your game is.
It’s being who you truly are and doing what you truly want to do.
When you play that game it’s a lot of fun and you get really good at that game because it’s your game and nobody can beat you at your game.
Why?
Well nobody does you better than you can do you.
So be yourself.
Play to your strengths.
When you play your game and you stop caring about playing everybody else’s game – everybody else will want to come and play your game and you will beat them every time.
Do you understand this?
You gotta find your game.
Finding your game is as simple as forgetting the outside world and getting to know who you really are and what you are naturally good at.
It’s about accepting who you are.
It’s about looking in the mirror and deciding that you’re not going to be anyone else.
Finding and playing your game is the key to success in life because you’ll never be successful playing someone else’s game.
Why?
It’s someone else’s game.
It is not your game.
You’re playing on their terms with their rules and they know their game better than you know their game.
Your weaknesses are going up against their strengths.
You won’t win.
Get that through your head.
This applies to everything in your life - from your work to your relationships to your health and your hobbies.
Don’t try to be someone you are not.
Don’t do things you don’t naturally like.
Why the fuck would you?
Because you’re trying to play someone else’s game – that’s why.
When you approach the world knowing your game and playing your game you are going to have a much better time.
You will be playing to your strengths.
You won’t be trying to impress people and fit in with other people because you will not care about doing that.
People who do that are not playing their game – they are trying to play another person’s game.
This is the value of knowing who you are and what you are good at and what you really want out of life.
Unless you know those things you cannot play your game because you won’t know what your game is.
It’s hard figuring out your game but at the same time it’s really easy..
Why?
Well…
Your game is YOU.
It’s right in front of your face.
Just look in the mirror and see the simple truth about yourself.
If you are not playing your game you will know because you will feel out of place and you will be miserable.
If you are playing your game – you will feel good.
You’ll be getting results.
Don’t live your life playing the games of other people because it’s a shitty way to live.
Live your life playing your game and doing your thing and you will have a great life and you will get really damn good at whatever your thing is.
What’s your thing?
I have no idea.
Nobody but you can know what your thing is.
That’s why asking other people who you are is stupid.
They don’t know and most of them don’t care.
Only you know who you are.
Only you know your game.
People will try to tell you what your game is but it is impossible for them to know - so don’t listen to them.
It takes a little time to find your game - from my experience.
I tried many things before I began to see the obvious truth about myself.
I knew what my game was all along to be honest.
But..
I was just afraid to play my game because I was afraid of myself.
Once I stopped being afraid of myself and I decided to play my game – everything got better.
Nobody can beat me at my game either.
Why?
Nobody can beat me at being me.
You see..
I used to look up to a lot of successful people that I wanted to be like.
I used to try and be like them.
I used to try and act like them.
I did this for a long time until I realised it wasn’t working.
Why wasn’t it working?
Well..
You can’t play someone else’s game and expect to win like they win.
Sure, it’s great to have role models.
Just don’t put people on a pedestal.
Don’t idolise anyone.
Everyone has faults.
Your idols are probably more fucked up than you think they are - you only see the surface.
You only see what they want you to see.
You don’t see inside their minds and you don’t see behind the curtain and you don’t see what’s really going on behind closed doors.
You only see what they want you to see.
So why play their game?
You’ll just lose.
You’ll end up unhappy.
You only want to play their game because you can see the results they are getting from playing THEIR game.
You can have similar results eventually but only if you play your game.
So don’t try to be like other people.
Learn from them but don’t idolise them because nobody is perfect and everyone is fucked up in some way because we’re all just human beings in the end.
We think we are all sophisticated and superior but we’re nothing more than a bunch of apes who just want to fuck and kill each other.
So..
Find out what your game is.
Find out what you’re naturally good at.
Stop trying to be someone you are not.
It won’t work.
Until Next Time.
Filed under · Motivation
