Are You Playing Someone Else’s Game?

I'm Rufus Griscom and this is the next big idea. Today, how to stop playing other people's games. We humans love games. I love games. I'm sure you love games.

It it starts with peekaboo and where's your nose and using bananas to make phone calls and it moves on to patty cake, hopscotch, duck duck goose. Before you know it, you're playing gin rummy, maybe chess and If you're anything like me trying to figure out how to get a sleep score over 94 on your aura ring, these are the games that we know we're playing, but what about the games that consume us that we never really realize that we've entered? Like working deliriously to improve our GPAs or to earn tenure or to get more likes. make more money so we can take that nice vacation.

It's worth stopping to ask yourself, are you playing someone else's game? And would you be happier if you stopped? My guest today, C. T. Wynne, a philosophy professor at the University of Utah, thinks there's a good chance you would be.

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