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Breaking the Meta in The Game of Life! with Moritz Baier-Lentz (Lightspeed Venture Partners)


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Moritz Baier-Lentz is a partner at Lightspeed Gaming, heading up their gaming investment practice.

Today we discuss viewing life as a game and how to optimize your own goals towards life by thinking about life as a game and how to break the meta.

You won't want to miss this unique and interesting discussion, so check it out!

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OUTLINE:

0:00 Introduction, the concept of life as a meta game

1:16 Explanation of "meta" and viewing life as a game

6:32 Moritz's background, career history

12:15 What are current metas for success in life? Breaking the meta

15:26 Breaking conventional wisdom, play as experimentation: work vs. play

23:00 Cross-combining different skills or industries to build a new meta

29:20 Approaching life as quest objectives, Moritz's framework for life

34:00 Details on Moritz's life framework

37:10 Examples of interesting life initiatives from Moritz, achievement by discipline

41:55 Using being "extreme" to accomplish goals, how to stand out

45:34 JK's weird dating example

46:45 How does someone pursue extremism?

52:30 The next chapter at Lightspeed Gaming for Moritz

55:55 What will become of Moritz's LA gaming parties?

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