>>43313156Anon, I think in this metaphor he’s referring to situations where you can’t change your circumstances, like what race you were born with or what kind of school district you grow up in. You know, “cards you were dealt.”
You can’t exchange them for different cards, but you can play them in clever ways in order to make your situation better, like applying for a scholarship for “coming from an impoverished neighborhood” so you can go to a better college or something.
Life isn’t about getting better cards in this metaphor—the cards have already been dealt, and you have to play THAT hand. Sometimes you will have a truly terrible hand with no chance of winning at all, but more often than not you can play a mediocre hand in clever ways to come out on top. You just gotta be willing to stop moping about a hand/situation long enough to assess the situation and figure out how you can make it suck less.
