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Today at our weekly meeting it struck me that my boss "Thinks like Tetris in a world that's....
um.....
that's really very not Tetris like."
My boss thinks things through in a very organized fashion, but in such a way that he expects the world to respond in an organized way. Like Tetris, he is ready for the 5 various square pieces to fall, and he will fit them smoothly into the game of life and score well.
But life is not that organized. I need another game that uses more random--odd shaped pieces to reflect the random-odd shaped problems that life throws at us.
Similar phrases would be: "He's mastered Checkers in a Chess World" meaning he isn't up to deep thinking.
"He's playing Candyland in a GT4 World" meaning he's naive.
or
"He's great at Badminton in an Football World" meaning he is way out of his league.
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Oddly enough, Tetris taught me that you need to NOT be reliable for a particular shape to arrive to fit in a particular sized hole, because sometimes a bunch of random shapes come that you weren't prepared for.
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They may be random, but they are of a limited number of types. The world we live in the shapes that fall on us are not limited to 4 connected squares, but may be blobs, wheels, or giant lizard feet.
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Seriously, though. If you want a direct correllation (video game), maybe Little Big Planet? It's entirely about organic whimsy. But unless someone's familiar with it, you'd lose a few people.
"Thinks like Tetris while playing marbles." Maybe.
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