AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
4min snip
How to Know What's Real: How to Win at Real Life
How to Know What’s Real
Exploring the Depths of Games and Meditation through Rock Climbing
Games provide a transporative experience that allows players to engage with different aspects of themselves and their personalities, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Rock climbing, described as a game, offers an intense mental state where players are deeply focused on the task at hand, providing a feedback system similar to meditation. A philosopher defines a game as voluntarily accepting unnecessary obstacles to engage in the struggle of overcoming them, highlighting that the end goal in a game is shaped by the constraints within which it is achieved.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode