Board game revelation - Have Fun or Win and be Frustrated

Hey, it's Tom here. Listen to this little nugget. So I'm playing a board game with two other people, and as we're playing, I noticed that they were doing kind of deals and exchanges that weren't illegal, but definitely trying to get me. The point of the game is to individually play, so there's usually not people who team up against another teammate. So my first reaction was about to get frustrated. But then before I got frustrated, I asked myself the question, why am I playing this game? Am I playing this game to win, or am I playing this game to have fun with the two people I'm playing the game with? For me, at that time, my answer was to have fun with the people I was playing the game with. And so the frustration I was about to feel went out the window like that. So if you're getting frustrated about a situation, maybe you need to change the answer and the question that you're asking and giving to yourself.