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C. Thi Nguyen

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771 total appearances

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Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And one way, place you can take this is to think that every scoring system also serves an interest, right?

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Every scoring system is there to guide us to a particular kind of action.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And the first thing we need to say, and I should have said this a long time ago, is here's something crucial thinking about games.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

To think about games, you have to understand that there's a difference between a goal and a purpose.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

So the goal of the game is what you're doing during the game.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And the purpose of the game is why you play the game.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

For example, the goal of Twister is not to fall over.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

The purpose is to have fun.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And you can tell that those are different because you can lose Twister and have a great time and your time was well spent, right?

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Does that make sense?

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

So big reason.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

So, I mean, I think,

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

For some people who play, there's no difference in goal and purpose.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And those are people who only care about winning.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

If your goal is to win, then the goal and the purpose are the same.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

But for a lot of us, the goal and purpose are completely different, right?

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

In fly fishing, my goal is to catch fish.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

My purpose is, I think, to zen out on the river and like...

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

clear all thoughts from my head and have like a completely non-conceptual relationship with nature where like my senses all tune up, right?

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Like I, so same thing with climbing, right?