Winners Win: A Guide to Understanding The Game Theory of Life

You skipped the gym for thirty days?You are not 0-for-30 at fitness. You are 30-for-30 at skipping the gym, and that stat is real, and it is trained, and your brain is getting more efficient at it every single time you do it.The trash can in my kitchen sat overflowing for six weeks.I walked past it. My stepdaughter walked past it. Everyone in the house walked past it - even though taking it out was her job, agreed to, understood, tied to her allowance. Then on morning forty-two, I stopped asking why won't she take it out and started asking a different question: What did she just get better at?The answer - leaving a full trash can alone, forty-two times in a row - cracks the whole game open. Because she wasn't standing still. Neither was I. Nobody is. Every action and every inaction is a rep at something, and your brain is keeping score whether you asked it to or not.Winners Win is a field guide to the invisible leveling system that's been running your life. Built on the bar-stool edition of game theory and dressed in the language of RPGs - character sheets, shadow builds, boss fights, co-op mode, XP theft - it gives you a vocabulary for the stat you've been accidentally maxing out, and the tools to choose your next rep on purpose.This book is about seeing the counter. Once you see it, you can never unsee it.Bring something to write with. You're going to need it.