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Your rivals study the way you play and find a tactic to counteract your strengths.
I have to say that the biggest lesson I have learned is to find your way to stand out.
When things don't go your way, it bites you from within, and you have to find a way to get out of it.
I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.
The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
There is no point going man-to-man with a player of Messi's ability. He is so clever he would drag your player all over the pitch and still find a way to destroy you, probably exploiting the hole you've left by assigning someone to that role.
The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't. Quests to faraway places or shopping sprees are no longer necessary. All you have to do is eliminate what you don't need by confronting each of your possessions properly.