The moral of the story isn’t in holding resources back. The moral of the story is to find a game you can compete in and give it 100%. Ask yourself if you are prepared to lose $90,000.00 because you wouldn’t put in another $10,000.00? Are you prepared to work 9 hours for zero results because you wouldn’t put in that extra hour it would have taken to assure winning? Are you willing to risk your bet because you didn’t do everything you could to assure you would win? How often have you set yourself up at the 90% mark and suffered the consequences?

Unfortunately, it doesn’t stop there. Not only do you need to constantly be putting more energy into advancement than your competition simply to survive but you need to acknowledge that the rules of the game are continuously changing as you play. This is the other reason why the winners are always the innovators. They are the only ones that can keep up with the changes in the terrain as they run the race.

At one point in the history of auto racing, all of the tires were the same. One day, someone got the bright idea that if it rained, they should put tires on the car specifically designed for maximum performance in rain. One day it rained, one race car had rain tires, and it won the race. You can imagine that it wasn’t too long after that day that every racing team had a set of special rain tires ready to go for the next time the course got wet. And so the cycle continued as racing teams looked for other ways to temporarily get a leg up on the competition. This is the evolution of the race car.

Make no mistake, history repeats itself. The inner workings of the human brain have not changed in over 40,000 years. This is why history repeats. It makes me laugh when world tragedy hits and everyone cries about how they wish they could have seen it coming. If you want to make better predictions than a psychic on how the United States of America will either evolve or fall apart, start reading about the fall of the other great nations in history. The parallels are so close that it’s comical in a tragic way. People evolve slowly but technology evolves faster and faster by the day. People today behave the same way towards each other as they did 40,000 years ago. They just use different tools and technology to do the same things to each other today. The basic rule is that human nature repeats over and over again as technology evolves faster and faster to better carry out that human nature.

This is a very important concept to keep in mind when you are getting advice from people "who have been there before you." When it comes to them telling you about human nature, pay close attention. When they start talking about how you should go about doing things, question everything they say. They ran the race years ago and the rules have changed because the technology has changed. The person who sits in the corner office got there 15 years ago. The rules for getting there today are totally different and in most cases, they have no idea what those rules are.

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