The Game Stays the Same

Business is a game. But it's not the game you've been told it is.

The game isn't about "winning." It's not about being a billionaire, a Fortune 500 CEO, or having your face on a magazine cover. Those are temporary milestones at best. The real game is simply this: playing.

A lot of the pressure you feel as an entrepreneur or professional disappears when you remember that the game has been going on since before you were alive and will continue long after you're gone. The players change, but the game stays the same.

We're all just temporary players on the field. Your decisions, your successes, and your failures are just moments in time. The game itself—the market, the human need for goods and services, the act of creation—is eternal.

This perspective doesn't mean your work is insignificant. Quite the opposite. It frees you to focus on what truly matters: doing great work for its own sake. When you stop obsessing over winning and losing, you can fully embrace the joy of creating, the challenge of solving problems, and the satisfaction of a job well done.

No one wins. We only play. So show up every day, give it your best, and enjoy the game.