He stops caring about the outcome and plays all out. This is the true meaning of detachment. It is effortless effort. It happens when one lets go of attachment to the results of one's actions and allows the increased energy to come to bear on the action itself. It is our state of consciousness that is the determining factor in our appreciation of the beautiful, the true or the loving.
Teaching is like dropping letters into the mailbox of the mind.
You know when they're posted but not when delivered, if read, or action taken. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows. Hubbard American IQ tests, in which a student's total ability is estimated from his success or failure in answering a long series of distinct and specific questions, is an example of our failure to understand the power of concentration or to respect the patience, humility and grandness of vision it requires. The state of modern higher education resembles that of an oak tree in a drought. Most oaks will survive one dry season, but not two in a row.