C. Thi Nguyen

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Two Percent with Michael Easter · #25: Why Numbers, Scores, and Metrics Make Life Worse | Thi Nguyen · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

I play a lot of games to experience meditation.

Yeah.

This is why.

And I try some games.

I get it for a bit.

So I hiked for a while for meditation.

I realized I would get moments of it.

And then I tried hiking more intensely.

Like, I'm going to do more mileage.

I actually got less meditation, and then I tried fly fishing.

It turns out that fly fishing is, for me, like a shortcut to pure Zen bliss meditation.

And one of the interesting things is if I fly fish kind of diffidently and not really try that hard, I don't get that meditation effect.

If I really try hard to catch a big fish, then I have to be super focused on the river.

And when I'm super focused visually on the river and on noticing the bugs, because you have to do that to catch the smart fish and fly fishing, then I get the pure hit of just this pure meditative trance state.

And so, does that make sense?

It does make sense, yeah.

The thing...

The thing that striving play gives you is not an uncompetitive attitude.

It's that you can choose what game and the degree of competitiveness and intensity you have in the game in order to hit this larger thing, which is what you actually care about.

For me, actually, it's super interesting.

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