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An interesting corollary to this is that almost every master who is recognised, is recognised because she *wanted* to be recognised, and adjusted her presentation accordingly https://t.co/Vx6DflNvWB
The primary alternative to this is when the master has a follower who recognises his brilliance, and conveys it to others. If it’s truly brilliant, you’ll have to *fight* for people to see it. They won’t see it otherwise https://t.co/sY2z5j1PCQ https://t.co/pIVP0mIzSz
There’s a small tiny % of “accidental/lucky recognition events”, which tend to get disproportionate media coverage. Also, many masters will deliberately choose to craft such an origin myth about themselves. (Eg: every cult leader ever)
But just as “a fool and his money are soon parted”, a master of some domain... who isn’t simultaneously a master (or advised by a master) of optics... will often pretty quickly lose their currency if it was gotten via a lucky lottery win https://t.co/Xd67O9KdYp
The power of framing đź–Ľ https://t.co/rtmzWRy93q https://t.co/E5Rj3O58Jq
On getting better at it: https://t.co/qVMyVHYshK https://t.co/H16iTGVusP
Infinite game-ing is about playing with frames School is a very rigid frame that trains people to think and work within a fixed frame When people first start experimenting with frames, it looks dumb and we make fun of them When they get good at it we call them geniuses https://t.co/CpgCyd8kbO
solving for distribution almost never happens by accident https://t.co/yOvQZOuyYV
having studied celebrity/popularity etc for ~15 years I’d say my sense is there are 1, 3, 5, 7 year “cycles”. You can kinda ride a lucky break for a year or 3, with “I guess I’ll keep at it lol”, but you don’t cross 7 years without being meta-deliberate & conscientious about it
by meta-deliberate I mean you can’t just think about how to win each “game”, but you also have to think about winning the meta-games: managing your own psychology (optimize for surviving internal strife), & preempting the pitfalls (optimize for surviving external threats) https://t.co/0t9gHfiKqk
