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In Jiang's workshop example, team rankings reverse because first-place teams become arrogant and stop reflecting, while last-place teams adapt.
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Arrogance
Once a team or empire reaches number one and then falls, it usually cannot recover because arrogance prevents honest reflection; a later group may reuse the name but is not the same people.
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Once a team or empire reaches number one and then falls, it usually cannot recover because arrogance prevents honest reflection; a later group may reuse the name but is not the same people.
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Arrogance and insecurity are two sides of the same coin in the human heart.
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"Okay? Does that make sense? I will also point out, another example. Okay? So, before teaching in high school, I was teaching teachers how..."
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"Okay? Now, what's interesting is, at the end of the first day, you would have, I would rank the teams. Okay? And then, number..."
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"yeah. Okay. According to game theory, what happens is team ten wins. And this is exactly what happens. The results are reversed. Okay? Number..."
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"That is a great question. Thank you for asking it. Okay? So in my experience, this is what happens. Okay? What happens is that,..."
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"Once you're number one, you become so arrogant that it becomes impossible for you to be humble again. Okay? Um, team two, we go..."
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"Um, yeah. So, I've never run on day three, so I can't say for sure. Okay? But, but that, that's what should happen. Okay?..."
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"...as well. So that's the nature of the human heart where arrogance and insecurity are two sides of the same coin, right? They're bundled..."
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"...humbled, everyone in Israel recognize the folly of his or her arrogance, hubris, and then will beg God for forgiveness. And once that happens,..."
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"...public. We are the republic. Right? So it shows you the arrogance of the elite. And we're seeing a very similar situation play out..."
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"...after a few decades of economic reform, you have this tremendous arrogance and hubris in the people, that never really existed during the sense..."
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"...describing Croatian people. I'm Croatian. You know, like you find this arrogance and conceit everywhere. So, yeah, that's fair enough. But, you know, when..."
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"...care about is glory for yourself. And eventually your ego your arrogance are going to"
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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