The-Magical-Game http://the-magical-game.com/ ... roll the dice ... Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:45:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 I was on the Nightbird Radio Podcast! http://the-magical-game.com/blog/i-was-on-the-nightbird-radio-podcast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-was-on-the-nightbird-radio-podcast http://the-magical-game.com/blog/i-was-on-the-nightbird-radio-podcast/#respond Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:45:00 +0000 https://the-magical-game.com/?p=101 Just wanted to share a link with you all — I had the pleasure of appearing on the Nightbird Radio Podcast, with Timothy Sailor! The podcast has a bunch of great guests in its past episodes, and I definitely recommend checking it out! New video coming soon, but here’s the podcast in the meantime. Best …

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]]> http://the-magical-game.com/blog/i-was-on-the-nightbird-radio-podcast/feed/ 0 101 New Video : Finite and Infinite Games http://the-magical-game.com/blog/new-video-finite-and-infinite-games/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-video-finite-and-infinite-games Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:06:05 +0000 http://the-magical-game.com/?p=98 I just posted a new video — a promising sign of things to come. It’s on a familiar topic.

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]]> 98 Distributing Power – Part 1 http://the-magical-game.com/blog/distributing-power-part-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=distributing-power-part-1 Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:31:33 +0000 http://the-magical-game.com/?p=94 This post is long overdue. It is also quite smaller than it should be, which means that much more is coming. This is a breathing technique that I learned in a training with Anthony Jacquin and Ben Wolff. These videos were recorded primarily for my hypnosis clients, hence the associated branding, and yet these are …

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]]> 94 Self-Overcoming … or … Do It With a DON!!! http://the-magical-game.com/blog/self-overcoming-or-do-it-with-a-don/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=self-overcoming-or-do-it-with-a-don Tue, 28 Dec 2021 22:24:41 +0000 http://the-magical-game.com/?p=87 You’re involved in at least one situation that could be played as an infinite game.  The creator of the concept of infinite games, James Carse, wrote the book as something of a metaphor for life as a whole.  And yet there are applications beyond the metaphorical that produce a yield.  Simon Sinek’s appropriately titled “The …

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]]> 87 Finite and Infinite Games http://the-magical-game.com/blog/finite-and-infinite-games/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=finite-and-infinite-games Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:26:28 +0000 http://the-magical-game.com/?p=82 “There are at least two kinds of games.  One could be called finite, and the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of play.” -James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games Thus begins James P. Carse’s philosophical work, for which this post is named …

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]]> 82 Games http://the-magical-game.com/blog/games/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=games Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:23:18 +0000 http://the-magical-game.com/?p=80 What is a game? I can, and will, go on about this question, but it’s more important, now, to move the pieces forward. For now, I will give an imperfect definition that goes something like this… A game is a challenge to be completed voluntarily, competing against some other element to achieve an objective. Games …

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]]> 80 Frames and Maps http://the-magical-game.com/blog/frames-and-maps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=frames-and-maps Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:21:52 +0000 http://the-magical-game.com/?p=78 Frames are cognitive tools — things we do in our heads — to make sense of the world. To “make sense” of the world is to attempt to predict it, usually through the construction of some type of predictive model. So, to avoid getting lost in the world of terms, we could say that frames …

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]]> 78 Nietzsche – Will to Power – Feeling Good http://the-magical-game.com/blog/nietzsche-will-to-power-feeling-good/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nietzsche-will-to-power-feeling-good Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:15:46 +0000 http://the-magical-game.com/?p=75 Note: this post previously appeared on my other blog at:http://whiterabbithypnosis.com/blog/nietzsche-will-to-power-feeling-good/I know … you’ve already seen the monkey video. In the last blog post, we had a brief, but probably sufficient, exploration of uncertainty.  It seems to be the case that uncertainty seems to be an inescapable epistemic feature or our world experience.  Beyond that, it’s …

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]]> 75 Welcome to the Desert of the Real – Doubt, Uncertainty, and Possibility http://the-magical-game.com/blog/welcome-to-the-desert-of-the-real-doubt-uncertainty-and-possibility/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=welcome-to-the-desert-of-the-real-doubt-uncertainty-and-possibility Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:09:11 +0000 http://the-magical-game.com/?p=72 Note: this post previously appeared on my other blog at:http://whiterabbithypnosis.com/blog/welcome-to-the-desert-of-the-real-doubt-uncertainty-and-possibility This is a blog about living an adventurous life. It is about the tricks and secrets that can help you do it. It is about taking sovereignty, and deciding to surpass our limits. Before we can get onto the tricks and secrets, however, it’s a …

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]]> 72 To Begin Again … From The Beginning http://the-magical-game.com/blog/to-begin-again-from-the-beginning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=to-begin-again-from-the-beginning Thu, 14 Oct 2021 03:59:14 +0000 http://the-magical-game.com/?p=66 Before we get started, it will help to set the stage a bit. And so it begins like this: What came to be the Magical Game, or more appropriately the Magical Game Operating System, had its beginnings over 12 years ago. From then until the present, there has been a persistent, albeit initially clumsy drive …

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