The Game of The Finite and the Infinite
preface
This book is more recommended to listen to the book, the first contact with this book is from the fan deng read inside to hear. At the same time, Fan Deng’s interpretation also gives me a profound understanding of this book. All in all, this book is recommended to listen to the book, because the core content of the book is not much.
Recommended language
At all times, we must play infinite games. The limit of the limited game is death, and the limit of the infinite game is whether to continue.
evaluation
3 stars, more esoteric and philosophical. Listening to books is more recommended than reading.
The content is also relatively simple, from a personal point of view, it actually does not need that many books to introduce this book.
Contents summary
What is a limited game
Limited games always have an end goal, such as taking an exam, winning a tournament, and every limited game has a very specific and embodied purpose.
There is always competition for limited games. There must be a winner and a loser, the winner gets the results of the limited game, and the loser chooses to leave or play the next limited game.
There are always benefits to limited games. There is no limited game without profit.
All competition for resources can be thought of as limited
What is an infinite game
Infinite play is designed to continue the game.
What is an infinite game in life? For example, we learn, learning is a matter of personal growth forever.
Learning a language is also an infinite game, learning skills is also an infinite game, things we make of the world
In a sense, charity is also an infinite game
We always have to play infinite games
This is not to say that we only play an infinite game, because life itself depends on a finite game in an endless infinite game.
Infinite games are important but not urgent if they are planned according to the time investment method, most typically to learn skills and acquire knowledge. We should try to invest our time in things that are more important than urgent, and focus more on personal growth.
Limited games are really bad
From the content of the book, the author obviously recommends infinite games, but society is a huge limited game, survival of the fittest is the law of nature, we play finite games every day, but few people go big enough to discover infinite games.
Second, we can always control only infinite games, not limited games, limited game makers are also participants, we can’t avoid in a closed loop of repeated similar actions. So limited games as a whole are an inevitable thing to do.
conclusion
At all times, we must play infinite games. You only live once. Play as many infinite games as you can while playing them well.