Picking Unfair Fights (2021)
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- hit and run on a pregnant women, though he did return to the scene to get his drugs
- his own daughter called the police on him after he was having a domestic incident with his fiancee
~ arrested for driving while intoxicated
Incredibly dirty fighter too. Stripped of the title 3 times (one for the felony charges on the aforementioned hit and run, and twice for testing positive for PEDs). Not to mention the time he tested positive for PEDs so the moved the whole venue for a UFC event so he could legally compete, and then he kicked his opponent in the dick.
The only thing the UFC should take from WWE is decent audio. Like seriously, 90's WWE had better audio production than the UFC does today.
It definitely takes out much of the honour if the story becomes Mr All-star-team got tossed around by two assholes.
It might, actually. From the intro paragraph: "Both taught me about choosing unfair fights and playing by your own rules…"
Summary of all those words could be: Don't challenge yourself, only do things that you already find easy because winning is the most important thing.
Of course, this depends on your definition of winning. If "winning" is beating other people at something you find easier than them, I'd like to challenge that definition.
OK, what's stopping you? :D What's your alternative?
I would summarise the author's advice differently as, "keep looking for niches that suit you and don't be afraid to move on if your existing niche disappears" or even simpler "pick your battles".
Put like that I don't see it as terrible advice even if I don't particularly follow it myself.
So to re-itterate definition I'm challenging: "Winning means beating other people at something you find easier than them". I have two issues with it:
The first keeps in the spirit of "winning" in terms of coming out on top in a competition, and it's this; how can you say you've won, if there was no real competition? The picture on the page where a guy's holding a basketball over the heads of children is apt. If you score more points against those children in a game of basketball, have you won a game of basketball?
The second gets a bit philosophical and calls into question the whole meaning of "winning" anything in life at all. I don't think winning == being successful in business or making money. If you've made money by screwing someone over, you have lost at life.
Choosing to be suboptimal in the short term for yourself, for the long term benefit of everyone, is how you grow.
How many of the Top 20 Global Rich List got there through altruism and CSR?
We have dozens of touch-points in Human Culture to aptly demonstrate this, ranging classically from 'The Tragedy of the Commons' to that sterotypical 80s mindset of 'Nice Guys Finish Last'. From Manufacturing/Sweatshops and post-colonial era exploitation of the 3rd world, to a Newt Gingrich led era of destructive political spindoctory in the 1st World.
To be slightly on the nose about it, we're now living in a US-Led 'Too Big to Fail' era of Power and Financial attainment, typified by an incredibly strong lobbying class, and a lax and de-incentivised regulatory class. The two are then weaponised to nefarious ends by power brokers using disingenuous polemic to conflate them to the point of making the hoi polloi into a pastiche of turkeys voting for Christmas.
Yay capitalism, I guess.