Game theory at inter-personal relationships

I have been ignited by the idea of Game Theorists working out concrete predictable models on everything from Trade Negotiations to bargaining with taxi drivers.

I also have a book on Game theory at work. ( How to use Game Theory to outthink and outmanuever your competition , James Miller)

But what these theorists and models and books overlook is that no-matter how many effective variables they consider, there is always the unknown dynamic variables that come into play at the last moment. ( Who/what will take care of/account for these ?? ) ( especially when, all you see in this world is a series of interlinked zero-sum games where the variables are too numerous and dynamic that we cannot script the outcome - even if we wanted to. ( even inter personal relationships like friendship , love and parental care are not excused out of this general model )

After thought
A) Is it that the reason why we dont want to know the outcome is because we cannot do it - and not because we dont want to !!
B) Sometimes the same rules in interpersonal relationships work fine ( if not better ) at/in business/networking ..

( Read this tip from Business Week on business networking :
DON'T be an apple-polisher
Everybody likes a compliment, sure, but nobody likes a lap dog—especially not your fellow MBAs. And recruiters can always sniff out blatant bootlicking. Even if you think you're being smooth, being insincere will still come across extremely quickly )

See !! A simple extension in your rules of interpersonal engagements !

Just the kind of person Bond hates

"Bond always distrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that had caused all the trouble in the world."

- James Bond , Goldfinger (1959 )

How not to propose

What do you feel when things which are supposed to go right go totally the wrong way ??
I really do empathise with people befallen into such weird and embarrassing situations .
Situations are Us !
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1439471720080314?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews

Angels and the Pious

To farishte poochhenge mehshar mein paakbaazon se
Gunah kyoon na kare, kya khuda rahim na tha?

- Aziz Mian

Trust me, the angels will ask the pious on judgement day -
"Why didn’t you sin? Didn’t you trust in God’s mercy?"

These days ..

What Iam happy about : Hmmmm the future !

What Iam looking forward : Where I will be next year this time . ( Havent I been thinking / asking / questioning / pondering the same year after year after year after ..... ) AAh anyways .. this is yet another year .

What Iam pissed off about right now : My so called broadband connection .. ( P.S : I can browse porn faster on my mobile ... than on a wired broadband connection from Reliance ) ... Yes ... Now you know what sucks and what ought to suck. ( Say no to drugs and Reliance Wi-Max )

What Iam concerned about : Iam not growing younger. .. worse still .. my age is not even staying still.!!
But atleast (relatively speaking) .. I age slower than the people around me. ( Some one who was 'younger' to me by 4 years recently told me that she felt 'old' because of me ...
Heres the logic she used : I am older than her > But she is more mature than me > I ought to be more mature than my age > But since she feels more mature than me , she feels older than me.
Q.E.D .
Here are the assumption that went wrong in reaching the conclusion :
a) Maturity is directly proportional to age.
b) Males mature at the same rate as females ( atleast in the homo sapiens species )
Facts :
a) Maturity / Wisdom doesnt always come along free with age.
b) Males of homo sapiens species never mature. ( or atleast want to ) They just die young. Try giving them a case of beer.
c) Maturity is a direct function of the ability to handle responsibility.

What Iam really worried about : Getting married to the wrong person ( Hmmm wait ... someone told me ... "Did you ever get to choose your dad / mom / brother ? .. Same with the case with your wife " ... )

Hmmm well ... yeah you maybe right .. I can finally grow in her ! ( or the other way ) ...

For that matter ... I didnt get to choose my boss /first job . This is my third company. I dont want to pay 50% of my assets to some 'wrong person' whom I married cos I couldnt afford a 7-in-one ( washing machine/ dish washer / cooker / vaccuum cleaner / micro wave/ baby-sitter/ iron box )