If it makes you feel better Jon Jones is a fairly reprehensible human being.<p>- hit and run on a pregnant women, though he did return to the scene to get his drugs<p>- his own daughter called the police on him after he was having a domestic incident with his fiancee<p>~ arrested for driving while intoxicated<p>Incredibly dirty fighter too. Stripped of the title 3 times (one for the felony charges on the aforementioned hit and run, and twice for testing positive for PEDs). Not to mention the time he tested positive for PEDs so the moved the whole venue for a UFC event so he could legally compete, and then he kicked his opponent in the dick.
This sounds like obvious and poor advice to me.<p>Summary of all those words could be: Don't challenge yourself, only do things that you already find easy because winning is the most important thing.<p>Of course, this depends on your definition of winning. If "winning" is beating other people at something you find easier than them, I'd like to challenge that definition.
An important basic life lesson covered in an entertaining way. One of pg’s early essays on how his startup Viaweb succeeded using Lisp covers the same point about seeking unfair advantages: “In business, there is nothing more valuable than a technical advantage your competitors don't understand. In business, as in war, surprise is worth as much as force.” (<a href="https://paulgraham.com/avg.html" rel="nofollow">https://paulgraham.com/avg.html</a>)
I don't like this guy's vibe, but I'm left wondering if we aren't stuck in a heroic mindset, while thinking like a villain is just more efficient. It feels profound, uplifting and _right_ to challenge yourself, but after you've completed your inner journey, how far ahead are the vipers who only learned only to strike and perfected only their viciousness?
So, the gist seems to be "if you want to win, choose a inferior opponent". First using a somewhat inapproriate sports situation as a teaser (his superior opponents didnt really choose him, they were assigned at random) to later transfer the same idea to investments and general money-making. I am not surprised that a investor outright says that unfairness is the name of the game, what a surprise. But the conflation with sports is just a tad too cold-hearted. I wouldn't want to have a drink with this guy, not even for money.