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Playing boards for most words or points can be stressful.
I saw a post on Instragram where someone asked AI how he could live to be 140. The answer was to live a stres- free life. The body produces all sorts of bad actors when under unneccessary stress.
Since my compressed anterior interosseous nerve has hampered use of my right thumb and index finger, I've settled into playing for long and best words. It's so relaxing hunting and pecking with a couple of fingers. Almost meditative. So easy to get into a zen state. Whereas playing fast made reaching a zen state extremely difficult. Not impossible but hard to maintain. Being in the zone of distraction and distress.
The competitive advantage of best/longest words is that if you succeed, there is no past or future. You have arrived at an unchangeable destination. The result obtains. It's de facto timelessness. It can no longer be undone. It endures. Like a photon crossing billions of years.
Of course if you reach 701 points in 4x4 or 1001 in 5x5 something similar occurs. But the particle become invisible for the most part. It's an event unseen. At least by others.
Even if the operation on my forearm and hand were 100% successful, I may just stick to the this simplicity. It might add a year or two to my life.
As they say in Hollywood, "May the Force be with you."
I saw a post on Instragram where someone asked AI how he could live to be 140. The answer was to live a stres- free life. The body produces all sorts of bad actors when under unneccessary stress.
Since my compressed anterior interosseous nerve has hampered use of my right thumb and index finger, I've settled into playing for long and best words. It's so relaxing hunting and pecking with a couple of fingers. Almost meditative. So easy to get into a zen state. Whereas playing fast made reaching a zen state extremely difficult. Not impossible but hard to maintain. Being in the zone of distraction and distress.
The competitive advantage of best/longest words is that if you succeed, there is no past or future. You have arrived at an unchangeable destination. The result obtains. It's de facto timelessness. It can no longer be undone. It endures. Like a photon crossing billions of years.
Of course if you reach 701 points in 4x4 or 1001 in 5x5 something similar occurs. But the particle become invisible for the most part. It's an event unseen. At least by others.
Even if the operation on my forearm and hand were 100% successful, I may just stick to the this simplicity. It might add a year or two to my life.
As they say in Hollywood, "May the Force be with you."
Also, there's nothing wrong with being a dynamo at finding the best/most words. If anything, it's admirable.
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