Game in the Brain

I had this conversation with my wife.
Basically regular life and career follows the empowerment path and psychology. You are empowered with swords, armor, and abilities; you fight more powerful foes, but they are no so powerful they are undefeatable.

A horror or call of Cthulhu game is the opposite, it is a disempowering immersion. The power level between you and the opponent is vast, you sacrifice so much for so little gain, and you revel with the inevitability. Most important is that you have an intrinsic understanding of risk, one that makes you marvel at every little success.

You can’t go into entrepreneurship from the standard mindset, it has to be like the Cthulhu immersion. Every little win is done by great sacrifices, and the expectations are very different from the standard.

It’s not a matter of courage, but maturity. There is an appreciation and set of mental frames that is really in the fringe of human experience… Like the Cthulhu mythos.

On the power gaming side of gaming, you can’t go into entrepreneurship as someone special. To think there is a divine will aiding you leads to risk taking that is very dangerous. You can say sacrifices change you, sacrificing modesty and pragmatic realism can end you.