Without checking out the guide and just figuring it out on my own, I bought the Joker card (Balatro) the next night, cleared the normal mode of this game.
The game has a total of eight levels, each level needs to challenge the score as the level increases, the more difficult it is. Normally, I can only play to the middle, good luck, but also can only stop at the fifth level, but pass that time, I took a different strategy, unexpectedly, a breakthrough in all levels.
After I put the game down, my head was still reeling, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that what I had just experienced in the game was also in line with my life experience. If I were to summarize my victory in three words, it would be “going to extremes”, and if I were to expand on that, there are four things I learned from the Joker.
Playing only one type of card
The rules of Joker are similar to Texas in that you can play pairs, threes, straights, huckleberries, flushes, fours, and straights from the cards in your hand. Each type of card has a corresponding base score and multiplier. The scores of the combinations you play stack up over a set number of rounds (e.g., 3 rounds), and if they exceed the number of scores needed to challenge the current level, you pass the level.
How would a normal person play poker? Naturally, based on the cards in your hand, you would choose the type of card that would give you the highest score, right? That’s what I thought, but following this method, you might be able to beat level 2 or 3, and if you’re lucky, go as far as level 4 or 5, and that’s the limit.
So, randomization, waiting for an opportunity, or egalitarianism, taking one step at a time, ideas like the above, you need to discard all of them. If you want to get the ultimate score, you have to adopt the ultimate strategy, so I chose to play only one type of card (flush) from the beginning, and from the first level, I put all my resources into this type of card: upgrading around it, allocating jokers and auxiliary cards that strengthen it. As you can see, as a result, on my first attempt, I made it to the end with just one trick.
You may think I’m exaggerating, I do look back on my life after the game and think about what I would have achieved in the last 20 years if I had only done one thing and put all my resources into it. What is certain is that regardless of the material changes, mentally, I would have become confident that I could stick to one thing and do it well.
And, without extraordinary focus, how can one achieve extraordinary results?
The Power of Compound Interest
As we just said, each card type has its corresponding base score, and multiplier. You have three chances to play in a round, and after each play, a base score and multiplier are calculated based on the deck and the special effects of the configured joker cards, and the two are multiplied together to get the final score of the round’s play.
If the first strategy, is to play only one deck, the second strategy I’m going to talk about next is to increase the multiplier at all costs.
The joker cards in this game have all sorts of special effects, each of which seems useful, but they don’t help me hit high enough scores. For the last time, I decided to go for broke and choose only multiplier-effect joker cards. See the five joker cards in the picture above? Only the first one is used to increase the base score, the next four effects are used to increase the multiplier of the cards played, and the second one is used to increase the multiplier of the “Flush” type (x10).
After configuring these jokers, as soon as I hit a flush, the jokers can stack up hundreds of times for a one-shot.
Next let’s associate it with real life. If there is no multiplier level growth in wealth, can we possibly change our current state of life? Is it possible to jump out of the boring life that we and the next generation keep repeating but can’t get out of?
So, if I ask you, where is your compound interest? Wouldn’t it be a good idea to prioritize thinking about this if you haven’t thought about it yet.
long-termism
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