<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Play the long game. Build contingencies into your... > Play the long game. Build contingencies into your plans so that your success does not depend on every promise being kept, and never put yourself in a position where something must happen immediately or everything collapses, because decisions made in desperation and fear are rarely good ones. **Source:** [[livestreams/Austin Cityscape After-Show — Attention, Identity, and Finding Your Tribe - Workbook|Austin Cityscape After-Show — Attention, Identity, and Finding Your Tribe]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Play the long game. Build contingencies into your plans so that your success does not depend on every promise being kept, and never put yourself in a position where something must happen immediately or everything collapses, because decisions made in desperation and fear are rarely good ones.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-play-long-game-rarely-good-ones ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->