Advice From Warren Buffet: Games Are Won By Players Who Focus On The Field

Ever wonder how certain people you admire end up at the top of their fields? Over many years and despite all kinds of setbacks, some folks manage not just to weather the storm, but actually come out far ahead. They handle a world clouded by fear, uncertainty, and doubt with elegance.

You can look back on their decisions and see how right they were, even when the answer seemed very unclear at the time.

How do they do this? And how can you do the same in your life—your work, your habits, the decisions you make?

As my favorite investor, Warren Buffet, likes to say:

“Games are won by players who focus on the field, not the ones looking at the scoreboard.”

Buffet spent his whole life working in financial investments—one of the most volatile careers—and rose to the top while many with the same intelligence and abilities failed time and again.

Warren’s advice is simple and intuitive: If you want to win, improve your game skills instead of worrying about the score. But in a world full of uncertainty where you constantly look to see what others are doing and second guess yourself, it can be awfully hard to follow.

Here’s how the scoreboard holds you back, and a few things you can do to follow Warren’s advice to win at whatever it is you find personally fulfilling and important, be it your career, a hobby, a relationship, or anything else.

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