It has taught me the instrumental rational lesson that winning isn’t everything. That is, people get pissed off and sulk if I win every time so it is sometimes better to play games that are either team based (only half the people sulk) or heavily randomized (if I play perfectly I still lose sometimes).
Interesting. Playing tabletop and card games taught me quite the opposite lesson: that you can have a lot of fun while losing, and you don’t have to be embarrassed about losing social status.
Interesting. Playing tabletop and card games taught me quite the opposite lesson: that you can have a lot of fun while losing, and you don’t have to be embarrassed about losing social status.
That is a useful lesson but it doesn’t seem to in any way ‘opposite’.
I was quite in a hurry when I replied before, let me clarify. What I mean is that while you (correct me if I didn’t understand properly) tried to minimize the number of people getting pissed off by letting everyone win at least sometimes, I (and my friend) have managed to get rid of the problem by learning to have a good time while losing (i.e. we enjoy more the act of playing than the result of winning).
It has taught me the instrumental rational lesson that winning isn’t everything. That is, people get pissed off and sulk if I win every time so it is sometimes better to play games that are either team based (only half the people sulk) or heavily randomized (if I play perfectly I still lose sometimes).
Interesting. Playing tabletop and card games taught me quite the opposite lesson: that you can have a lot of fun while losing, and you don’t have to be embarrassed about losing social status.
That is a useful lesson but it doesn’t seem to in any way ‘opposite’.
I was quite in a hurry when I replied before, let me clarify. What I mean is that while you (correct me if I didn’t understand properly) tried to minimize the number of people getting pissed off by letting everyone win at least sometimes, I (and my friend) have managed to get rid of the problem by learning to have a good time while losing (i.e. we enjoy more the act of playing than the result of winning).