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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8434790" data-attributes="member: 6696971">It definitely does feel alien to me.So a couple things...and I hate to do this...but...1)&nbsp; The dictionary definition of &quot;win&quot; is &quot;be successful in a conflict, contest, or endeavor.&quot;&nbsp; There is no clause appended to the end of that stipulating &quot;terminating any future conflicts, contests, or endeavors.&quot; 2)&nbsp; I come from a deeply athletic background and a hard childhood.&nbsp; The merger of those two things created a cognitive space that is deeply focused on RIGHT NOW.&nbsp; I set small goals and I work intensely to complete them, desperately trying to not let &quot;the long view&quot; arrest my focus on, and satisfaction from &quot;right now.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Stacking&quot; is a term you see often these days.&nbsp; That has been used in athletics and martial arts forever.&nbsp; You have a conflict, contest, or endeavor before you.&nbsp; You defeat it.&nbsp; You stack the next victory on top of that one and you keep stacking.One rep at a time, one play at a time, one contest at a time, etc etc.&nbsp; Each of these are enormously consequential.&nbsp; A break in the chain (physically like an actual injury setback or mentally/emotionally like a reorienting of my self-belief in a bad way) is a terrible thing.&nbsp; Don't let it happen.&nbsp; Win &gt; Stack &gt; Rinse/Repeat.&nbsp; Don't look into the future.&nbsp; Don't focus on things you can't control. I have to wonder how much deeply different environmental inputs meeting different nature is what we're haggling over here.3)&nbsp; There is an enormous amount of advanced metrics right now about &quot;micro-wins.&quot;&nbsp; For American Football (for instance), &quot;play wins&quot; (4 or more yards in a non-3rd-and-long situation or achieving the line to gain for a 1st down or achieving the goal-line for a TD) are taking over the field of analytics because they're showing themselves to be an extremely predictable and stable metric for evaluating offense and defense production. The same thing happens in baseball.&nbsp; ERA is a terrible metric (particularly for Relievers) precisely because it takes this giant view of a season long campaign and it tries to extrapolate actually pitching production.&nbsp; Meanwhile, you might have a Reliever who has had 50 Appearances, 47 of them were immaculate (Holds or Saves; eg &quot;Wins&quot;), while 2 of them were train-wrecks and 1 was a net loss.&nbsp; Their ERA is massively inflated (lets say its 3.75...awful for a Reliever)...but their actual Hold/Save Ratio?&nbsp; Elite.&nbsp; That latter metric is &quot;who they are.&quot;&nbsp; You put them on the mound and they are reliably going to produce. [HR][/HR]I'm writing this to you specifically because we're friends and I want you to understand how my brain plugs into all of this.&nbsp; I figure it may also be conducive to others (the conversation at large) to know my wiring as it relates to this.Thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 8434790, member: 6696971"] It definitely does feel alien to me. So a couple things...and I hate to do this...but... 1) The dictionary definition of "win" is "be successful in a conflict, contest, or endeavor." There is no clause appended to the end of that stipulating "terminating any future conflicts, contests, or endeavors." 2) I come from a deeply athletic background and a hard childhood. The merger of those two things created a cognitive space that is deeply focused on RIGHT NOW. I set small goals and I work intensely to complete them, desperately trying to not let "the long view" arrest my focus on, and satisfaction from "right now." "Stacking" is a term you see often these days. That has been used in athletics and martial arts forever. You have a conflict, contest, or endeavor before you. You defeat it. You stack the next victory on top of that one and you keep stacking. One rep at a time, one play at a time, one contest at a time, etc etc. Each of these are enormously consequential. A break in the chain (physically like an actual injury setback or mentally/emotionally like a reorienting of my self-belief in a bad way) is a terrible thing. Don't let it happen. Win > Stack > Rinse/Repeat. Don't look into the future. Don't focus on things you can't control. I have to wonder how much deeply different environmental inputs meeting different nature is what we're haggling over here. 3) There is an enormous amount of advanced metrics right now about "micro-wins." For American Football (for instance), "play wins" (4 or more yards in a non-3rd-and-long situation or achieving the line to gain for a 1st down or achieving the goal-line for a TD) are taking over the field of analytics because they're showing themselves to be an extremely predictable and stable metric for evaluating offense and defense production. The same thing happens in baseball. ERA is a terrible metric (particularly for Relievers) precisely because it takes this giant view of a season long campaign and it tries to extrapolate actually pitching production. Meanwhile, you might have a Reliever who has had 50 Appearances, 47 of them were immaculate (Holds or Saves; eg "Wins"), while 2 of them were train-wrecks and 1 was a net loss. Their ERA is massively inflated (lets say its 3.75...awful for a Reliever)...but their actual Hold/Save Ratio? Elite. That latter metric is "who they are." You put them on the mound and they are reliably going to produce. [HR][/HR] I'm writing this to you specifically because we're friends and I want you to understand how my brain plugs into all of this. I figure it may also be conducive to others (the conversation at large) to know my wiring as it relates to this. Thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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