Extreme resilience vs Obsession?
Taking accountability and fix the damage you caused which requires sacrifice vs self preservation at all cost even it means being selfish so that you survive and continue the game?
Taking accountability and making amends is also a means of self preservation - specifically recognizing a mistake was made and saving oneself from getting into a worse situation. I hold people who admit their mistakes and fixing their mistakes in high regard.
Compared to someone who made a mistake and denies responsibility. In general, people know a mistake was made and have good guesses who caused it. Seeing the person deny responsibility results in people losing trust in this person.
Ultimately, would you want to work with a team mate who owns up to his/her mistake and fixes it, or a team mate who lies and denies responsibility?
When is considered grit, when is considered stubborn like a rock?
I'll give a rock climbing example where a climber is halfway up and discovers there are no more handholds to allow him to climb up further.
Grit is when the climber back tracks and find another way up. If that new route is also a dead end, the climber back tracks further to find another alternate route. The climber does this repeatly until he reaches the top.
Stubborness is the climber not willing to consider alternative routes and insists on trying the same dead end route again and again, hoping that the cliff will magically change and provide a new hand hold the next time.
When is considered cutting loss quickly, when is considered giving up too soon?
Same rock climbing example - cutting loss is when the climber have already tried several of the most feasible routes and cannot proceed. By trying several alternatives, he has a better understanding that he does not have the skill to ascend further, then decides to climb down.
Giving up too soon is when said climber gives up without even trying alternatives.
When is considered being strategic, when is considered scheming?
When comapred this way, these words themselves already have different connotations tied to them.
Strategizing mainly is to position oneself better for self benefit. Might or might not be done at the expense of others, but that's not the goal.
Scheming generally means there is detrimental impact to others. Might not even benefit oneself.
It feels like they are just the same trait? But if luck is on your side and you get what you want, then people frame it as the good trait. If not is just blamed as the bad?
To me, there are definitely differences, but I can understand why some people would look at it this way.
Also, while we are in a realistic world where most people just celebrate the winners, we should be careful when attributing something to good or bad luck. Because this dismisses the work and effort of those who succeeded and those who failed.
And if you know the game is rigged and no matter how you play, you will not win, will you still play?
Depends on what other benefits I can get out of the experience.
I know I won't win the gold medal in martial arts tournaments, I also know I won't be the one climbing fastest. Doesn't stop me from participating since I learn and improve myself each time.
Watching from the sidelines is very different from being a direct participant in the game.
You are not interested to merely be a participant, you want to win and the only satisfied outcome to you is, win.
If you know going further, stats show you will be burn, will you continue? But if you don't, you can't prove the stats is right. And if you don't, you can't tell if there is a miracle against all odds.
Change the winning conditions.
For example, I know there are many fighters much better and more experienced than me in a tournament. I know full well that I am not going to win any medals.
For me, gaining experience is a win, even if I do not "win" any medals.
I am not there to prove anyone's stats are correct/wrong. I am there for myself.