The next time you lose a match you feel you should have won, or just lose any match, ask yourself if perhaps instead of thinking the entire combat math through you just said"screw it" and ran all your dudes in.

I am reminded of Robert E. Lee's uncharacteristic frontal assault at Gettysburg. I keep thinking that the pressure got to him, and he just convinced himself, "Screw it. My men can do anything!"

It would seem that Vince Lombardi is the Anti-Bruce.

I wonder if the underlying mechanism is something evolved for the regulation of groups? Is there some sort of winner/loser switch in our brains which is there to facilitate the leadership of a single winner?

Is this the reason for Biden's slip of the tongue, and for Al Gore's gracious capitulation?