103. The art of weiqi (go/baduk) war (碁#10) 坤 (☳/☰)

Normally after eight articles on a topic, I would stop because I would have covered one article for each of the eight hexagrams from the I-Ching. And that would be that. Life would move on. I would go and collect my metaphysical paycheque for a job well done. And then I would settle down to a life that most people can comprehend and accept as being normal. For a while, things would be going okay except for the fact that I am living outside of my Zone of Genius, or what is more commonly referred to as being “Not in the Zone’ or outside of ‘My flow”. And steadily, but surely, I would see my turf being encroached upon, with players making moves upon the Go board without a response. I don’t believe in handicaps except for the ones given in the original form of the game: Black will start first and will get one extra stone to play with. White is the challenger and must earn their stripes. But here I am, giving away freebies to the competition. As you can guess by now, I am talking about the game of weiqi and at the same time I am talking about real life. There is no accident here. The two worlds overlap. You can see it on the board itself when observing two players dueling. They are fighting over turf and territory: The player with the most territory at the end makes the most money. The key principle here is to find a way to transcend the game itself and be like Vince Mcmahon, C.E.O. of W.W.E. and play both sides of the game. If you are already in that position, congratulations. Whether your title says it or not, you are probably in a position of authority with money being a reflection of your success rate. Stay in flow and what you are earning is a one hundred percent return rate. But all too often, we get enticed by the glamour of being a player and hope back down into the game. When we do that, our rate of return gets slashed by half back to only fifty percent. Which totally sucks! Fifty percent isn’t even break-even point. One hundred percent is! So focus on becoming a two hundred percenter ⚔️圍棋戰聖