Mark Evans DM argues most people play to protect what they have rather than play to win. He contrasts passive leisure with building a legacy through constant movement and process, using his own reading rituals as proof of progress.
Sitting at the pool does not leave a legacy. It creates cancer, sunburn, and over drinking. To discover freedom. Like, the process is part of the game. You know, most people won't do this because they want to go sit outside and then virtue. And they're looking up, and then three hours later, they're like, oh, shit, I'm reading a book. You know, Like, I don't read books at the pool. I ask my wife. I don't go to the pool to read a book. She could do it all day. I can't do it. You just pick it up and go, keep it moving, dude. Why am I doing that? Sitting at the pool does not leave a legacy. It creates cancer, sunburn, and over drinking 16 years. I mean, you saw the Cribs video. Did you see my office? I had books stacked almost up to the ceiling. So what I would do is I had the shelf in the back behind me, pull it down, highlight, highlight, highlight, read, boom, stick it in the corner. That's how I knew that was my progress report. I. People walk in. This is a $5 million house. They're like, dude, why don't you get a bookshelf? It's like, that's not how my brain sees progress. My progress is stacked. Stack the books. Like, I'm trying to stack the chips. We're all different, dude. Again, there's no right or wrong. Just what I think. People are playing the wrong game, dude. They're playing the. I'm playing to win. They're playing to protect. And then I get people texting me, like, yo, I have an issue. What do you. The situation? If that's a situation, I ain't got shit going on in my life, that's for sure.
