"You miss all the shots you don't take." It's true.
When you think about it, how did you get to where you are? It's not something you could reason about in anyway to reproduce what got you there. Good things happen, bad things happen that's because you throw darts even when you don't know it.
You getting into this world is a result of chance. Many sperm don't make it to the egg and many eggs don't get fertilized. The chance of even getting to the point where sperm can even have a chance to have the chance of the journey to the egg especially given two particular people is low, very low. There's much complexity with regard to two people meeting and having that energy to get to that point. This is why I say dating apps, swipe apps, suck because some of the complexity of attraction is simplified and more self serving (more dart throwing, less dart hits). I like my idea for entry to fix the perception of "dating" apps, but the problem is while the initial cost is cheap, it is operationally expensive given the heavy moderation it would need to scale. Governments worldwide are trying to help and accept help to fix what they deem the "birth rate" issue. 2026, I can throw darts at raising money for the solution maybe.
People or kids writing to pen pals is a throwing of darts. Some of it voluntary some of it compulsory, but it invites a different perspective to the world and maybe less villains to grow up. I don't know how much this sort of thing is emphasized these days given the rise of a world without boundaries on the internet which has been double edged, but I think a proper service needs to be able to offer this to individuals and companies for free and at a cost. It's a good service, a worldly service. I just think kids in early school would appreciate this more than the older ones. College/Post Docs students, also I think would appreciate this. Middle school offers many distractions depending on where you attend so I think there would be a lull in that period, but then again it could actually be the best period for new perspectives.
Joining and interacting with a group of people, going to night hot spots like bars, night clubs, restaurants even is a bunch of dart throwing. Putting yourself out there allows different opportunities to present themselves. Not every one is going to work out obviously, but you get used to it. This is part of the whole, you cannot reason nor reproduce your past results for someone else to get to where you are.
I could meet random people in Japan again, it wouldn't be the same people and even it it were it doesn't mean the same result. Just because you met someone once and had a good time doesn't mean you would enjoy them or their presence again. Reproducing results is hard. A minority of people you will truly dislike or like, most you are neutral on and would like to keep neutral with.
I've been talking about social opportunities, but throwing darts applies everywhere like when you start a project and drop it even for a short time. It allows others to think of it and throw the dart. I've done that how many times now. Many people do it. That's why so few products exist relative to the number that start. Same with business, so few exist relative to how many that would exist. Look at Youtube videos these days, they don't get as many views as they did in the past. Starting early with it was a boon for creators, nowadays sucks to be you. It's harder. A DIY PS5 portable video would have gotten 100M views, today, this year? 21M. Imagine throwing darts and them falling flat because you are competing for more limited attention (The bulls eye is much smaller) not because they aren't good throws. You among many have to throw even more darts at different times. Who knows where we could be today with more good dart throws (and less bad ones) that land more dart hits somewhere on the board closer to the bullseye.
I'll admit it does suck to see people who throw bad darts but still hit a bullseye. It's a punch in the gut for many. You, wide eyed and huffing, knowing they made less effort and hit it dead on while you spent a lot of time and effort to hit a mediocre spot outside the bullseye. It pulls in a lot of other low effort attempts, drowns out many capable efforts and drags things down. Ugh.
You can only hope for a time where all the mediocre attempts die out because people get tired and bored of them not because it is more expensive to produce which is the state of a lot of things off and online these days. The more expensive it is to throw darts, the less attempts that will follow and the more pressure there is to make money for each dart throw.
We need to be able to throw things against the wall and make them stick, of course that doesn't mean the dart can't fall off after hitting. Just throw the damn dart and try to hit a bullseye. The primary distractions should be behind me, so it's the theme for 2025 and on. Throw more darts and hit Something new, Something different.