# It's Not Whether You Win or Lose

Originally published: 2012-09-21
Canonical URL: /2012/Sep/its-not-whether-you-win-or-lose/

It's how close you come to doing the Right Thing at each and every one of the uncounted millions of decision points that make up _your life_, with how you play in any particular game only constituting a tiny fraction of these, and it being not at all clear that choosing to play a game just then is closer to the Right Thing than any number of non-game-playing actions you might have chosen instead, but didn't.