{"id":1861,"date":"2022-09-23T04:15:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T04:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/with-detachment-from-the-outcome\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T04:15:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T04:15:18","slug":"with-detachment-from-the-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/with-detachment-from-the-outcome\/","title":{"rendered":"With Detachment from the Outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">There are games and there is life, and life is not a game. But life is <em>like<\/em> a game, and sufficiently so to warrant application of the same principle: play hard, but with detachment from the outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In chess, and not just in chess, it is &#39;unsporting&#39; not to try to defeat the opponent by all legal means.&#0160; It shows a lack of respect for the opponent and for the game to not do one&#39;s best.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In life as in chess, play hard, but with detachment from the outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">If the above reminds you of the <em>Bhagavad Gita<\/em>, that&#39;s a feather in your cap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2020\/02\/coitus-reservatus-and-beyond.html\"><em>Coitus Reservatus<\/em> and Beyond<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are games and there is life, and life is not a game. But life is like a game, and sufficiently so to warrant application of the same principle: play hard, but with detachment from the outcome. In chess, and not just in chess, it is &#39;unsporting&#39; not to try to defeat the opponent by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/with-detachment-from-the-outcome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;With Detachment from the Outcome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}