The phrase “pick your battles,” is not just about conserving your energy/sanity for when it’s really important, but also a recognition that life is an infinite game (as I think Sinek means it) and winning some battles may not even help you achieve your aims — no matter how important they may seem to others or how much you might want to fight them.
#PickYourBattles #SimonSinek #InfiniteGame
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@pyager sorry, this is wrong question. There is no winner in war. Russia attacked Ukraine, they not participating in war, they defending themselves. It's a big difference. Russia want to win as they playing finenite game, Ukraine want to survive as they playing infinite game. The output is clear, but the path to it is not... Yet.
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@tek @smallerdemon nice read, history lesson on Thunderbird, the relation to Firefox and Mozilla Foundation, and how to stay in the game. #infinitegame
"A finite game is played to win; there are clear victors and losers. An infinite game is played to keep playing; the goal is to maximize winning across all participants."
"There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play."
The core idea is pretty cool.
The actual book is in the form of poetic aphorisms followed by brief explanations.
Some of these help flesh out the ideas a bit, such as how "games aren't played out alone". Most of the emphasis is on how finite games are about control and allowing the past to dominate the future. In Ben G.'s terms, to mock-quote, "finite games are about individuation and infinite games are about radical self-transformation".
I quite liked the following insight:
"A story attains the status of myth when it is retold, and persistently retold, solely for its own sake."
Watching SPY x FAMILY, I noticed that there are some really cute scenes worth replaying (such as a clairvoyant dog saving a boy). These are mythical scenes :- D.
And then there are many quasi-profound assertions that don't resonate much with me. Perhaps these will really sit well with some other readers and the book will appear ripe with hidden gems.
"Such museums (referring to New York's principal museums) are not designed to protect the art from people, but to protect the people from art."
I found the following Lecture by James Carse to do more justice to explaining his point of view on Infinite and Finite games: https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/405226105/The-Finite-and-Infinite-Games.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3459587419
#GoodReads #BookReview #InfiniteGame
The core idea is pretty cool.
The actual book is in the form of poetic aphorisms followed by brief explanations.
Some of these help flesh out the ideas a bit, such as how "games aren't played out alone". Most of the emphasis is on how finite games are about control and allowing the past to dominate the future. In Ben G.'s terms, to mock-quote, "finite games are about individuation and infinite games are about radical self-transformation".
I quite liked the following insight:
"A story attains the status of myth when it is retold, and persistently retold, solely for its own sake."
Watching SPY x FAMILY, I noticed that there are some really cute scenes worth replaying (such as a clairvoyant dog saving a boy). These are mythical scenes :- D.
And then there are many quasi-profound assertions that don't resonate much with me. Perhaps these will really sit well with some other readers and the book will appear ripe with hidden gems.
"Such museums (referring to New York's principal museums) are not designed to protect the art from people, but to protect the people from art."
I found the following Lecture by James Carse to do more justice to explaining his point of view on Infinite and Finite games: https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/405226105/The-Finite-and-Infinite-Games.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3459587419
#GoodReads #BookReview #InfiniteGame
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Finite and Infinite | Otium
In human relationships this would mean keeping lines of communication open and trying to allow space for deep, weird, vulnerable, unfamiliar, or surprising interactions to arise. It would also mean questioning or poking fun at fixed or narrowly competitive behavior patterns.
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https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/06/05/finite-and-infinite/
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