If you can’t win, change the rules.

If you can’t win, change the rules.

If you can’t win, change the rules. If you can’t change the rules, ignore them. I

Once you know the rules of the game, you can change them.

Doing something different means you might underperform, but it also means you might change the game entirely.

If you can't win, change the rules.

Most people blindly follow the rules. Many social rules were created at a time for situations that may no longer apply today.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed.

“If you can’t win, change the game.”
Ivan twitched a brow upward. “If there’s no game, isn’t winning a pretty meaningless concept?”

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

Every game has rules... The first of these rules is that the game is important. If it wasn't important, you wouldn't be playing it.

If no mistake you have made, yet losing you are... a different game you should play.

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

It’s fun to win, sure, but if you only have fun when you win, you completely lose the joy of just playing a game, and being part of a team that works together. You’re not going to win every game you play, so if winning is the only way you have fun, you’re going to have a bad time pretty often.

We need clear rules to play the game. We need to have respect for the law. If you play a chess game but after two or three moves you can change the rules, how can people play with you? Of course you will win, but after 60 years you will still be a bad player because you never meet anyone who can challenge you. What kind of game is that? Is that interesting? This game is not right, but who is going to say, 'Hey, let’s play fairly?'