A reflection on humility and a positive-sum approach towards living

Self awareness and truth seeking are key. Be well aware of your own mind, thoughts, feelings, sensations, viewpoints, biases, strengths, capabilities, hopes, dreams, and fears.

Be truly humble and aware of your limits, as I define here (if you find this interesting or useful, there is much more content).

• Realize the importance of luck. Realize you can be wrong without knowing. Understand you don't have all the answers. Be aware you'll make mistakes. Remember everyone's going through something tough, it's hard, be grateful and acknowledge that everyone's doing the best they can and you're not any better than them intrinsically.
• Recognize that you likely got to where you were through a series of lucky breaks, or at least you weren't super unlucky. And realize that at any point you could get set back really far - we can play our cards perfectly but still lose.

And, be aware of the non-dual nature of experience. Recognize and experience the feeling of the loss of the self. There is no self, there is only awareness and its contents.

This leads to the temporary loss of the self and the dissolution of the personal ego (temporarily, but permanently by degrees). This makes going through the world and dealing with others much easier. 

And, last, recognize that we often get what we deserve, and we must usually give to be deserving.

Give love, get love. Deserve respect, get respect. Have fun, get (more) fun. Why do people love dogs?

This all takes work. Virtue is predicated on action. Live virtuously. The world can be positive sum if you live in such a way that it IS positive sum.