>>2021547
Chess metaphor.
In a game in which you are playing yourself, (the best way to know how you play in chess), you have to act like you are not the other person sitting across the table.
And they are acting against you at every turn.
You have to "forget" that you are them, because if you don't, then game swings in the favor of whoever you deem the most appropriate at the moment.
Of course, your opponent (who is still you, remember), is doing all they can to beat you.
But you can't stop there. There is more to a chess game than the game of chess. There's the spectators, how the board is manifested, how the pieces look, the "time" of the game (time doesn't exist in forms of chess, because action is only taken during moves and the time between moves varies IS RELATIVE).
You have to consider it all, because it all effects the game.
Here's the problem: No matter what, no matter who wins, the only person who succeeds is the one who sat down and imagined the game in the first place because they benefit from the knowledge they've gained.
And no matter what the opponent does, no matter even if it wins, it's only an act of futility and delaying in the inevitable because the game gets restarted and the person begins again with knew knowledge.
Upgrade this idea?