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Seeing the Entire Field: Collecting Puzzle Pieces

Look at your life as if it were a Gameboard. To succeed, you must see a high-level overview of the entire Gameboard. Begin to collect information as if it was puzzle pieces. Gather resources, stack skills, and align with the right partners who can help you on your journey. Use your imagination in the present to pull yourself into the future. Visualize where you want to go, act as if you are already there, and make moves that align with that vision. Every decision, every step forward, is a part of completing the larger picture of your life.

In the Game of Life, every move you make is a step closer to the person you are becoming and the goals you are striving to achieve. 

Remember at the beginning of the course when you made your list of all your available pieces you can move in your Game of Life? Now you are going to use that list. Start to look at all your available pieces as pieces of information in and about your Game—how will you assemble them to make the best Game for yourself?

Movable pieces can take on different forms when looked at from different angles. You must look at all your movable pieces as individual pieces of information but also at their plays within the bigger Game to see their value in different situations or when made in combination with other moves.

When a piece of information or data is by itself and no interpretation has been made yet, it is called raw data. Just as “raw materials” are used when building or cooking something, raw data is a piece in its unrefined form and has yet to be combined to produce finished value. Information and data are interesting when you think of them like puzzle pieces. Consider every piece of information and data as a puzzle piece, except the puzzle can be built in hundreds of millions of different ways. Imagine for a minute every piece of data and information you have ever learned or come to know sitting on the floor in front of you—how would you put it together? Would you assemble it the same way as another if they were sitting on the floor but on the other side of all the pieces? Data and information can be interpreted in many ways, and there are many methods to extract value from them.

Information is an asset. Period. Collect as much information about your Game as you can. These pieces of information are your building pieces. They are the pieces you will move.

Information is the building block of everything in life—literally everything! It is valuable, more valuable than dollars or minutes. Unlike other resources in the Game of Life, it is powerful and can yield power and restrict it. How an individual assembles pieces of information can make them a billionaire or help them gain control of an entire industry—ultimately, everything of value that is built into the world begins with information. The more information you have in your Game about your pieces, the better moves you can make.

Start seeing the world as an endless puzzle, where each piece of information is a part of a larger picture you're putting together when you make your thoughtful moves.

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