23 Oct Your Life, Made Up of Many Finite Games, Summing to One Infinite Game

In my presentation to NYSSA last Friday, I posed the question:

• Are you playing Wall Street's game
• Or is it playing yours?

The bittersweet truth is, Wall Street is itself a kind of infinite game but many games played on the Street are high stakes, finite games that turn people into unemployment statistics. To have success on Wall Street or anywhere else, it is important to stay in the game, no matter what. This is one of the first lessons I learned as a card-counter on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade....