You’re still playing the wrong game.

Look at your opponent.

Look at who they work for.

Look at their goals.

Understand how this diversion helps those goals.

Assume you are less intelligent than you believe to be.

Assume the opposition are more intelligent than you believe them to be.

Play where the puck is heading, not where it is now.

Understand you are both on the same side.

Understand that you may, despite your own integrity checking, be compromised by your ambition.

Understand, ambition rarely has anything to do with money, other than as a unit of measure.

please explain how this could be true