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Life is a Game: Here’s How To Win"

  • Writer: Marcus Nikos
    Marcus Nikos
  • Mar 8
  • 12 min read

life might not be a

game but it certainly feels like it so

here is the tutorial and a review I been

playing Earth video game since I spawned

onto the map in 1981 I'm not one of the

most experienced players but I wanted to

make a review or a tutorial here for you

I'm also going to share a few tricks on

how you can hack the game closer to the

end of the video I'm going to share with

you how to truly beat the game and get

on the

leaderboard so basically when you start

the game Earth you're dropped straight

into the tutorial phase and the

developers call this childhood and you

learn the basics how to interact survive

and get by but the thing is this

tutorial barely scratches the surface of

what you'll need to know to play Earth

really well and level up your character

in most games when you choose a

character you get to break down all

their strengths and weaknesses so you

can plan accordingly but in earth that

is not how it works the Deep traits the

the strengths and the flaws that your

character are kept hidden from you on

purpose you don't get any guide telling

you what you're naturally good at or

where you might struggle and the

developers designed it this way you have

to dig you have to work youve got to

explore and understand who your

character really is and most players who

play Earth spend their entire lives

without ever fully

knowing their character's true potential

and they get stuck playing Earth on the

surface level and they miss out on the

depth that could change the way they

experience the entire game one of the

goals that you get in the game is

bringing new players into the game my

character recently committed to another

character named Michelle and we used the

game mechanics and the in-game coins to

bring another user into the game and we

named her Hannah and she's just now

starting the tutorial phase and and this

is a hard Mission so I would wait until

you think your character is ready

because the game mechanics make you

literally walk the character all the way

through the entire tutorial phase if you

decide to make a new character even

though they start going to a different

map location where other characters are

going to help them for like 8 hours a

day this is called school so not all

players get the same tutorial some get a

pretty easy start and some have to face

some serious crap right from the

beginning of the game but no matter what

kind of intro that you get Earth hides a

lot of key details from every character

and you might think you've got your

strengths and weaknesses nailed down but

the truth is there's always more to

uncover there's abilities and traits

that come to light through missions and

unlocking new levels of Earth so the

true goal is to know your character

really deeply so the biggest mistake

that players on Earth make is assuming

that they know their character just

because they've been playing it for a

while but if you really want to thr

Drive you've got to go deeper most

people never reach this level of insight

they're too caught up in reacting to the

game's weird Randomness instead of

taking the time to learn who their

character is the game developers didn't

give you the answers up front and they

won't make it easy for you to find but

once you do earth upgrades from just a

survival game into this badass quest of

self-mastery with brand new level

unlocks and a lot more coins after the

upgrade and then we have glitches here's

one of the biggest things that nobody

tells you when you start playing Earth

your character is probably running way

too many programs at one time if you

imagine having 50 tabs open on your

browser all the time so the game

developers turned off the open programs

alert by default so most players don't

even realize that it's happening and

these programs keep running in the

background they cause your character to

lag and they reduce our critical

abilities our focus and our overall

performance just goes way down down in

Earth these background programs could be

anything from unresolved tasks emotional

baggage that your character tries to

hold on to distractions or habits that

just don't level up your character at

all and then we get into

entropy this is the silent killer if you

don't keep revisiting your systems how

you're earning in-game points and coins

and what you're focusing on and how

you're playing you're going to start

trending toward entropy and this is true

for all video games and entropy is the

slow drift into chaos and disorder that

stops your character from focusing on

what really matters so to beat entropy

you've got to study Earth you have to

study the mechanics of this game its

rules its hidden systems and the more

you understand how the game really works

the better you can control your

character's progress but let's be very

real here most players will not put in

the time which makes leveling up fairly

easy compared to most games and the good

news for you is you don't have to do it

alone you can hire someone to hack your

account for you like a coach coaches

have studied the game they know the

shortcuts and the hacks to get you back

on track faster than if you try to just

figure out the whole game by yourself

and another way to reset your character

and close some of those open programs is

by using certain glitches in the game

one of the most effective glitches might

be psychedelics and if your character is

in a location where psychedelics are

legal you can find them in the in-game

shop and trade some coins for them the

more programs you close and the better

you manage entropy The More You Can

level up earn more coins and do stuff

that is fun in Earth there are five key

mechanics that no amount of AI or any

kind of automation can really take over

and these are the pillars of real

success on Earth and every character has

to master them so number one is

connections and love building

relationships with other characters is

one of the most power powerful mechanics

in the game and they're going to really

pay off for you in the long run the

second one is production so meaningful

work is a core mechanic in the earth

game and this isn't just about grinding

for coins it's about developing purpose

so what you produce whether it's

physical or intellectual or creative

gives your character a reason to keep

playing the game it's super important

then we have number three which is

mindset how your character thinks is

everything in this game your internal

game is just as important as the

external and there's no AI that can

replace your ability to grow and adapt

mentally so choose good missions and

good quests to take your character on

and number four is your overall

character Health monitoring your

character's health is super important

for taking the game's quests on and

challenges and this isn't just about

physical health it's about keeping your

character in the best shape mentally and

emotionally and physically they have a

lot of crap that you have to monitor but

it's totally worth it and a healthy

character performs way better making it

easier to get success and earn coins in

the game but it does get tricky the game

is filled with instant Pleasures that

look like you're leveling up but it

gives you a placebo and these are things

that give your character a quick boost

but there's no long-term benefit

enjoyment on the other hand comes from

achieving meaningful goals and staying

aligned with your purpose so the final

goal of the developers is to get you to

understand the game like what is the

purpose of the game game and this is the

meta mechanic of the game so studying

the game itself the more you understand

the rules the mechanics and how they

interact the better you're going to play

this game and you can't Outsource this

to Ai and it's the difference between

just surviving in Earth and truly

thriving and leveling up your character

like

crazy in Earth the real secret to

enjoying the game play is designing your

own quests and of course the developers

have pre-built missions and quests that

you can go on and they're almost

Limitless challenges that keep you busy

but if you want to play like a pro you

need to take full control the players

that are famous for getting the most

points in this game don't actually wait

for the game to give them tasks they

make their own and they shape how their

character story unfolds themselves so

Steven Cotler who's one of the

characters in the game map right now he

wrote a tutorial called The Art of

impossible he lays out a framework

that's perfect for creating your own

quests here on Earth and you can think

of these like custom missions that you

get to choose rather than letting the

game pick for you so number one is

curiosity in Earth it drives your

character toward exploration and new

levels the more you follow curiosity the

more unique and exciting your quests are

going to get if you ignore it you're

going to get stuck in a lot of

predictable crap the second is Passion

this is your Quest Compass guiding

toward missions that matter and when you

connect what excites you with what

you're good at your custom quests get

really easy to put together and the

third is purpose so think of this like

your ultimate quest line in the game

this is the Legacy that your character

is going to leave behind purpose-driven

quests aren't just about completing

tasks they're about creating something

meaningful in the game something that

allows other characters to level up

themselves in a same or similar way it's

one of the ways that you can get the

other players to put your character's

name on crap all around the map and they

will talk about you after you exit the

game then we have autonomy autonomy

gives you control over your character's

Direction instead of accepting default

quests handed to you and then we have

Mastery the more practice and refinement

that you do to your skills the more

powerful your character gets and this

gives you tools to take on even more

challenging quests and it gives you more

coins to use in the shops and as I Pro

tip build your quests that avoid your

character's antiv Vision the dystopian

future that you absolutely don't want in

the game almost every player ignores

this and they never spend time to lay

out the things that they do not want to

occur once your quests get mapped out

it's time to build your mission goals

and you can think of them as checkpoints

along your journey these goals become

the specific task that your character is

going to tackle and and level up and

they'll keep you focused on what matters

and keep out of distraction mode but

then when it comes to distraction mode

there's something called the NPC trap

the developers added a trick to convert

real players into NPCs which is

non-playable characters if you're not

familiar with NPCs they're basically the

characters in video games that don't

have any real control over their actions

they just kind of repeat these routines

over and over without any purpose or

growth like a shopkeeper or something

like that in Earth this trap is very

real and it's right in front of us every

time that your character gets sucked

into social media spends hours Doom

scrolling politics and basically you let

the character get consumed by whatever

media is making them pay attention to

you're walking right into NPC territory

one of the other ways they do this is by

convincing you to keep learning and

gathering information by taking game

tutorials and never using that

information on quests lots of game

tutorials out there most people don't

use them they get addicted to the game

tutorials the developers don't want

every player reaching the higher levels

of development so they flood the entire

game with these distractions and they

make sure a lot of characters never get

past a certain point it's pretty

brilliant they seduce people with the

easy stuff and before they know it

they've become an NPC just following

Trends and distractions that are out

there so all characters are prone to

this so be careful if you decide to try

out Earth here's the way to hack that

the more you force your character to

focus on what really matters your decade

your year your monthly goals the less

likely you are to fall into this trap so

keep your eyes on the long term you

level up your character a lot faster and

you get to complete missions and quests

instead of wasting your character in low

energy Loops they use low energy because

it conserves memory processing for the

game at this point you start seeing how

much of the game is designed to derail

you and how many people around you are

stuck in the loop and the difference

between a real player and an NPC is that

the NPC reacts and the player chooses

what they want to do so most of them

don't even realize that their character

converted into an NPC because they've

been programmed by the game to believe

they're still playing but they're stuck

on autopilot some of the NPCs uh we need

to harvest coins but most of the

distractions are there to get you to

take on smaller missions and compare

your character stuff to other gear so

that you'll spend coins upgrading your

skins and all the other

stuff once you reach the end of the game

you get access to this character grading

system that the game uses and the game

judges you only while you're exiting

only when you're very close to exiting

and leaving the game you get judged on

these five things so here are the five

secret things that the game is secretly

rating you on to determine if you're

going to go up on the leaderboard first

thing is decision perspective and it's

love versus fear this is the ultimate

test in the game without ever telling

you the developer's designed life on

Earth to evaluate how often you can make

choices rooted in love empathy

connection and compassion versus all

those that are driven by fear like self-

protection and judgment and isolation

the highest rated characters navigate

the game from love a lot more often even

when fear seems like a really easy past

all right so secret grading system

number two is your connection to others

points are scored for collaboration deep

understanding forgiveness the ability to

dissolve the illusion of separation and

the strongest players understand that

they're not competing but are in this

together that's the ultimate trick

because when people think of the word

game they think they're in a game they

think that there's a winner and a loser

but that's the ultimate trick is just

getting this in your head and living

that in your life next is your

adaptability the game is going to throw

endless plot twists at you there's going

to be loss and failure unexpected change

those people who can learn and grow from

adversity score a lot higher and players

who cling too tightly to control and

resist change are going to lose points

like crazy and not even know it next we

have authenticity there is a hidden

bonus for playing your character in

alignment with who you truly are and

it's not about playing by society's

rules or trying to achieve external

success the developers reward characters

who are true to their inter voice their

passions their purpose which most people

don't figure out until they're about to

exit the game completely and the final

secret rating that you're going to get

when you're near the exit of the game is

contribution points are tallied up for

how much you give back to the game world

and it could be through helping other

characters sharing knowledge or leaving

behind something that benefits future

players and basically if you fix things

for characters or improve the game map

somehow you get points for that so

remember Earth is full of distractions

and auto assigned tasks that can keep

you running in circles but the best

players zoom out they set their course

and take control of how their story ends

so it's your game it's your rules if you

learn the game rules well enough then

you can break them that's how you beat

the game and that's how you get on the

leaderboards by playing it on your terms

and don't forget you can always reboot

your character when things get tough

with a psychologist character or one of

the NPCs who will accept coins to fix

some of your settings and the cool thing

about the game is you're never really

stuck in a bad spot in Earth unless you

choose to be overall I'll give it 4 and

a half stars and it's really fun I'm

still in the game right now as I'm

making this video for other characters

if you focus on the points that we

talked about to really truly win the

game here is one more photo of the other

character I connected with and the new

character that we brought into the game

who's in the tutorial phase right now

your points also come from whether or

not these new characters buil build

points too so you'll get points based on

that as well if you're also in the main

map let me know and maybe our characters

will meet up with each other so you made

it to the end most people don't do that

so I know that you're most likely

committed to learning these skills and

I'm willing to bet that you're one of

the few people who realize that these

skills determine true success and they

always have if you want to level up your

skill level and take it from a casual

interest to a serious study click the

link in the descript description and I

promise what you'll see will blow your

mind so until next time if you're


my heart I really hope you got something

impactful from this video and I hope

that your day is the most powerful and

meaningful version of it that it can be

 
 
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