You Can’t Win If You Don’t Play

There’s a decision we have to make as creators. It’s whether or not we are going to create. For me, as a master creator, I believe the question is not whether or not, we should create, but how often.

This quote doesn’t apply just to the lottery: but to us creators.

Oh, and by “us creators,” I mean the human population.

No, bear cubs can’t write, but we can.

I think it was the California lottery that once had a tagline: You Can’t Win If You Don’t Play

Don’t forget to read the even more powerful post: You Can’t Lose If You Don’t Play.

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

Wayne Gretzky

It seems that, above, I am mostly focusing on games or the lottery, or the casino, or on the court. However, if I am to make this more real, and more realistic, then the game is, to go completely cliché, the game of life.

So how do we win in the game of life? In my extremely humble opinion, we are what we create. There’s some quote that says something like, “the one who dies with the most toys wins.” I would amend that by changing it to, “the one who creates is the one who wins.”

Obviously, as the creator of programs and books called, for example, “how to write your worst book ever,” or “how to write your first book in a weekend,” or even, my newer, and even more favorite, “how to write a one-word book,” I not only want to create, I want to help you to create.

OK, here we go, and nice summary for this post. The winning of the game is not a question of quantity, or, frankly, even quality. The winning of the game is whether or not you create — and how often you do it.

Pro tip: I can win at my game, and you can win at your game, and it’s not a zero sum game. We can both win at our games. In fact, the more we win our own games, the more we help, others win and their games, and then we all win the collective game