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We begin the game by carefully stacking the blocks, layer by layer, neatly, building the tower strong from the ground up.
But the real game begins with deliberately extracting one block from the bottom, and another, then another, until the stacks become precariously tall.
This seemingly simple block-stacking game introduces complex challenges that require us to make good choices, just like life. Below are five valuable lessons we can pick up about life from Jenga.
5. If there aren’t any obstacles to tackle in life, you stop growing after a certain point.
That beats life’s greatest pursuit– growth. So don’t settle for being just fine. You may have started structurally stable, but you have to do something to grow.
4. You cannot succeed all by yourself.
You achieve all your triumphs with the help of every single person around you. Each encounter with your friends and foes will take you where exactly you should be.
3. You lose fragments from your past, but you gain something helpful for your development.
It’s a game of risk and reward. You have to lose blocks from the bottom to build something bigger and better. That’s progress.
2. The older you become, the more difficult decisions you’ll have to make.
Life becomes more difficult as you age. We all can agree to this. Like in Jenga, the higher the tower gets, the more it wobbles. Hence, the more careful you will have to think which block to remove next.
1. It fails.
And you can always restart. More careful and steady the second time around.
Life doesn’t always fall in our favor. But when life crumbles and throws you for a loop, one thing is for sure– there’s always something beautiful learned in the end.
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