C. Thi Nguyen

I'm a rock climber.

Like you could climb up the front of the rock or you could go back up the back, which is easy, or you could climb a tree or you could get a ladder, right?

There are all kinds of easier ways to get there.

And one of the things that Suits is saying is that in games, when we're playing a game, we're trying to hit some goal, but it doesn't count unless we do it

under the constraints, right?

Like if you thought the goal of basketball was just to pass the ball through the hoop, then logically what you should do is take a step ladder to the court and then pass the ball through the hoop as many times as possible.

But that doesn't count, right?

So the thing that's really important for suits is whatever the value of basketball is, it's essentially bound up with doing the activity inside a constraint system.

So if you believe that, right, then the world just quickly divides into what Suits calls normal practical activity and game activity.

In a normal practical activity, there's some goal you want and you just do as efficiently as possible because all that matters is the goal, right?

If you're hungry and you need fish, you take the most efficient means possible, which is actually like a net or like dynamite, right?

Or, right?

I think people forget about this, but when you're doing this other thing that I do, the technical term for it is angling.

You're not trying to catch fish by any way as you can.

You're not using a net.

That's what commercial fishermen use because that's actually the most efficient way.

What you're doing is you're trying to trick the fish into biting your fake net.

lure or your bait you're like you're engaging with the psychology of the fish right like all angling involves tricking the fish into biting a baited hook or biting a fake lure that is a much harder way to catch fish and it's a game because if you're doing that it's like so i don't know if you know this but if you're fishing i don't know in my mind why my mind is not fishing today

If you're fishing and you're reeling in and you get something and it turns out that you accidentally hooked the fish on the side, it didn't bite the hook, but you just like, it doesn't count.

You're like, oh, crap.