Definition of Life and Memories.

Chapter 2 – Impossible to lose if you knew what comes next

To win, the prudent old way is to predict what comes ahead. It is absurd if you fall into a hole where you have been told and saw by your own eyes.

In a debate or argument, you have to predict and apprehend what sort of challenges will approach next. Similarly you can’t expect to enter into the exam hall unprepared, its equivalent to enter a battlefield without weapon. This is an effective skill which has been used since medieval period to achieve victory without losing much.

I had actually tested this out.

When I first moved to city, I was always irritated by sarcastic jokes, probably it is how city people speak to each other and the more I tried to counter those jokes, the more I was embarrassed by it. So I decided to blend with them more, hoping to adapt to their jokes. As time passes by, it is as if I can read their mind and know what they are going to make fun of, and that’s the time I trounce their stupidity. It happened when I was telling them I found a shortcut to a place which saved me some travel time. One of them asked “how short is the shortcut” and I immediately sensed that he did not mean to ask it sincerely, so I foiled his attempt and instead he got fooled for my unexpected answer.

To predict what comes next requires a high vigilance, and experience will be a boon to it.

To be able to predict opponent’s next move, you have to be vigilant of his act and speech with a bit help of experience. I have two real life situations to compare and contrast the prominence of their intention. First one is a friend who always speaks and does for his own benefit, it is obvious that when he approaches someone, he is trying to loot some benefit for himself, and I did predicted correctly when there was once he contacted me by phone and asked me to give him a ride to somewhere. If I accepted his request at that time, I guess I will be the fool who round and round the city where the actual destination is only somewhere reachable within minutes. The second one was a difficult one, where he is just another random friend without any obvious traits. We were not close, but I was asked to lend him some money. Rationally, we wouldn’t consider much to lend about 10 to 50 dollars to our friends. But I declined his request by experience that he approached me for the first time and it’s about getting benefit. I was correct, and now that “10 to 50 dollars” debt with someone else has lasted about 2 years already.