From the author: The author's reflections on life strategies Why remain yourself if you can become someone better?/ Richard Bandler, creator of NLP Recently, among my friends, there was talk about Giordano Bruno. One said that you need to defend your ideas and not give up, and Giordano is a hero and well done, and the other said that Bruno is a stubborn fool. And everyone began to look for my support. I refused the role of an arbitrator, but I thought about it. What is my opinion? What would I do if I were Bruno? And I decided to find out a little more about this. Half a century before the story of Giordano Bruno, there lived a smart guy, Nicolaus Copernicus. He had many talents: he was an astronomer, a mathematician, a mechanic, an economist, and a canon of the Renaissance. At the time when Copernicus lived, there was a system of world structure proposed by the ancient Greek scientist Claudius Ptolemy. It consisted in the fact that the Earth rests motionless in the center of the Universe, and the Sun and other planets revolve around it. Its provisions were considered unshakable, because they were in good agreement with the teachings of the Catholic Church. Copernicus created his now well-known heliocentric model of the world, but did not declare it during his lifetime. He presented it simply as a convenient model for calculations (for example, a calendar) and nothing more. He lived for 70 years and died in his bed, surrounded by attention and care. After his death, the book “On the Rotations of the Celestial Spheres” was published, which was published by his friends and students and which was subsequently declared prohibited by the church. Now about Giordano Bruno. He was also a smart guy, he discovered a lot of things and delighted people with his knowledge, but he didn’t stay anywhere for long. Because due to some factors (I assume due to a conflictual nature) he had to flee from everywhere: from England to France, from France to Germany, from there to Venice, where he managed to call all the monks donkeys and their religion false. And all this during the time of the Inquisition. A fighter for the truth, ready to die for it, or a crazy brawler? In general, in the end they put him in prison, where for six years they tried to persuade him to renounce his beliefs. But apparently the wrong one was attacked. He had to be burned, and alive - yes, those were still the times. It turns out that Copernicus was a coward, he hid, disguised himself, as if he retreated - or for him it was not important, not fundamental, relationships and material well-being were much more important to him. Nowadays this would be called emotional or social competence. What about Bruno? He defended his ideas to the end, went ahead with a challenge, attacked, and never gave in. But, really, when there are only donkeys around (well, as Bruno believed, I think), why should I remain silent? In 1889, in the place where he was burned three hundred years ago, a monument was erected to him, and then many others. Copernicus was not deprived of this either. In game theory there is such a game as “Doves and Hawks”. The essence of it is to understand what survival strategy is most effective in the population. The rules of the game were first published in the journal Nature in 1973. The authors of the work proposed formalizing animal conflicts over resources, territory or sexual partners in this way. The model allows, based on the ratio of strategies in the population, to calculate the amount of resources spent and received by individuals in one or another version of interactions. The bird metaphor was borrowed from the geopolitical slang of that time (“hawks” for a tough confrontation with the enemy, “doves” for detente and compromises) .In a population there is a certain ratio of both, and this ratio is not constant, it is dynamic. If there are more hawks, they begin to kill each other for resources - and the pigeon population increases. The population of pigeons increases; the surviving hawks less often encounter other hawks, and more often pigeons, from which they take resources. And again there are more and more hawks, and fewer pigeons, and everything happens all over again, it’s like a swing. Hawks have an advantage because they can take resources from a pigeon, but when they meet another?