In life, you have spectators and participants, and everything in between, like in dualism, you have everything from top to bottom, and everything between top and bottom. In fact, this article is mainly about the participants who actually win, not the viewers who want to win without making the efforts of the participants. So, I’ll cut to the chase: When I came up with this article, I was thinking about the college cheating scandal in the news involving rich people paying for their less talented kids to go to college schools. the Ivy League and being “party”. bums,” while more people who serve people who really need and want education and qualify for education are turned away by these same Ivy League schools. I bring this up because we need genuine participants in life, not just glorified bystanders who they are balance artists who cheat to appear to be participants in life.

We all want an “easy way,” even those of us who genuinely work hard at it, even a genius like Michelangelo, who essentially said with me paraphrasing, of course, “If I could do the Sistine Chapel and the Statue of David easily, I would.” would, and if you knew how hard people have worked on these things you wouldn’t think they were so much genius”. That brings me to a point, we all want shortcuts to greatness, even the best of us who see “cheaters making it easy.” I just mentioned a key to human nature and the human condition there: we all want to make it easy, even those who are willing to work harder, smarter, and use what we have in bigger ways than are genuine genius. If we could have it easy without the terribly twisted consequences of cheating, we would. That is my point. The difference between winners, losers and break even artists is this. Winners are willing to work smart, work hard, or work smart and hard. Genuine losers can only envy and ultimately be onlookers because they are unwilling to go out, and breakout artists even immediately get lucky with good fortune at the start that is not repeatable. Anything less than a true winner pays the price, often a high price. I know it’s a seemingly “bad” thing, as Vincent Lombardi puts it, but I have the benefit of being honest about it. In this season of Lent I go beyond the truth towards honesty, especially with myself. Sure, I gave up even telling “white lies” or lying at all or even half the truth for my Lenten sacrifice as a Christian. In fact, though, I’d rather tell it like it is and pay the right way than lie, follow my “natural” human nature, and pay a bigger price. After all, what do you think is the true nature of losers and break even artists? Especially when they try to duplicate their “lucky hits” with skill and true genius. That’s where the real winners come in anyway, the people willing to develop the ability to repeat victory with skill and hard-earned understanding and be genuinely great.

So, in life, you have spectators and participants, and everything in between, like in dualism, you have everything from top to bottom, and everything between top and bottom. But going beyond that dualism, you have cold cause and effect, which is the ultimate dualism where the cause is the master and the effect is the servant of the cause. Doing a right cause to get a right result, no matter how hard it is, no matter what it costs, that’s the key to truly winning.

So, I end with a thought about a book I have that I’ve read several times by a guy named Bern Wheeler. He essentially says that we must strive to live in a winning way. “The One and Only Law of Winning” is not just a title, it is a reality and a reality that the honestly and truly sane live by.