The article is worth your time, but if you want a summary-there appears to be a part of many people’s minds that wants to lose. And often winning is as much a matter of overcoming this part of you (which the article terms Bruce) as it is overcoming the challenges in front of you.
I think Bruce is not the part of you that needs to lose, but rather the part of you that cares more about your place in society than your own goals.
This is helpful to me, because if I take Bruce to be an agent keeping me in line with my beliefs about society, then if Bruce is keeping me down it’s because I believe I’m part of the losing class. I’m doing a good citizen’s duty of being walked on so that others may stand taller.
The MtG article is called Stuck in the Middle With Bruce by John Rizzo. Not sure how to link, but it’s
http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/2005_Stuck_In_The_Middle_With_Bruce.html
The article is worth your time, but if you want a summary-there appears to be a part of many people’s minds that wants to lose. And often winning is as much a matter of overcoming this part of you (which the article terms Bruce) as it is overcoming the challenges in front of you.
This is an interesting article. I wrote out some thoughts on it.
I think Bruce is not the part of you that needs to lose, but rather the part of you that cares more about your place in society than your own goals.
This is helpful to me, because if I take Bruce to be an agent keeping me in line with my beliefs about society, then if Bruce is keeping me down it’s because I believe I’m part of the losing class. I’m doing a good citizen’s duty of being walked on so that others may stand taller.