Tom Krieglstein asks why frustration over board game rules helps you achieve your actual goal. If you're playing to enjoy time with friends, getting annoyed at unfair moves works against that. The emotional friction isn't worth it.
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Have you ever played a board game with friends or family where something happened that just wasn't right? Maybe it wasn't per the rules of the game and you felt yourself getting super frustrated. You're like that's not how the game is played. And then for the rest of the game you're just frustrated if that happens. And by the way, it has happened to me, I always pause and I go why am I playing this game? Am I playing this game right now because I want to win? Because if I want to win then yes I'm going to be frustrated. But if I'm playing this game because I want to have quality time with my friends and my family, is that frustration, is that thing that happened really worth the anger, the annoyance, the friction that you're going to have inside and causing you to not get the goal that you actually wanted which was to have quality time with friends and family.