For what it's worth, I'm not arguing that one
should look at their life entirely this dispassionately. Just that their are multiple levels that we operate in where we deal with rules and consequences.
I don't mean "game" in the sense of "doesn't matter what happens". I mean it in the sense of "players interacting within a rule set".
Note that empathy and the feelings of others are hugely important parts of all of the games we play in life. An anecdote: my youngest daughter is one of the sweetest most naturally empathic people I know. She was playing Candyland with her older sister and won twice in a row. This got her sister mad because she wants nothing more to win. But my youngest daughter wasn't trying to win—Candyland is a pure chance game—and what she really wanted was for everyone to have fun. So she told her sister to play again and that she promised to let her win this time. She was trying to play the metagame of maximizing everyone's fun.