#1 Once you understand the way broadly you can see it in all things

Few days ago I ran into YouTube short showing a cut of Joe Rogan Experience, where he talks about his tattoo of Miyamoto Musashi. He proceeds to tell the story on how when he was training martial arts at age of 16 he read "The Book of Five Rings". It was a masterpiece of literature treating about strategy. Author was a Samurai, that killed 62 men in one on one combat. He recalls the line from the book that goes "Once you understand the way broadly you can see it in all things". Joe proceeds to explain that all difficult things aid you in developing human potential "and you find a way to get out of your own way by getting good at all kinds of things".

The same concept shown up before in an epic old movie from 1994 called Fresh. One of my favorite dramas of all time. In this film a young kid goes on to see his father (Samuel L. Jackson) to play chess with him in the park and as he does it he gets taught life strategies through what happens to his pieces on the board (https://youtu.be/PFHy2D30avc?t=75). He is very attentive and absorbs all that knowledge that he proceeds to use in real life against malevolent gang members that abuse his family. It is a dramatic motion picture, but it paints a perfect image of how strategy in one portion of life can be applied in other places. Especially strategy in simplified part of life like a game with very clear rules.

The same model is used by a powerful orator that goes by name of Andrew Tate. His principles for life are strongly grounded in lessons derived from chess, taught to him by his father who was a grand master. These rules field tested in battle and business still hold the ground and serve as perfect guidance for life decisions.

This idea on its own is very old. It comes from ancient philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. It has strong overlap with metaphysics concept of universals, that are common characteristics and qualities of very specific instantiated material representations called particulars.

If you think of chess as a game where each piece has its own abilities, status and power, there are clear rules on what ends the game, even if most of pieces are still alive. If you use clock as in competitive chess games you add a dimension of difficulty, but it still plays out mostly in your head.

I would dare to form a statement that there is a new metaphor for life in simplified scope, but one that adds more dimensions of difficulty, as well as aspects of human and animal nature. One that requires highly trained eye, motoric reflexes, group battles with multiple people, teamwork, coordination of strategic advances. One that introduces fear and primal instincts. One that adds social aspects of life and thus becomes a more realistic model to learn on. One that still obeys the classic rules of what constitutes a win, but is played, intuitively understood and loved by way more people. This game is...
an old classic
two decades absolute best seller
Call of Duty.

This blog will be dedicated in its entirety to distill the life lessons planted in the world's most known fps. Stay tuned.