When you focus on building good processes and not goals you no longer enjoy a state of happiness but feel fulfilled as well.
James Clear in his book Atomic Habits, shares this tip.
Tag: James Carse
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THREE historical events I cherish the Most
The THREE historical events I cherish the most are as follows:
- 1983 – Invention of the Internet – This ushered in the knowledge worker age and heralded the era of STARTUPS.
- 1986 – James Carse published the book Finite and Infinite Games, which later inspired Simon Sinek to give birth to his book The Infinite game
- 2007 – The year in which Steve Jobs gave a storytelling masterclass while launching the iPhone.
These three events are particularly noteworthy from the point of view of inspiration and motivation.
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Extending James Carse’s Infinite Game concept to life and business
James Carse , the master has talked about two kinds of Games.
One is Finite where the players are fixed , rules are agreed upon , duration is fixed and there is winning or losing.
The other kind is Infinite Game where the players are not fixed , rules are not agreed upon and duration is not known.Hence in such a case there is nothing like WINNING or LOSING.
Simon Sinek in his book The Infinite Game has extended James Carse’s Infinite Game concepts very aptly to life as well as business.
The following great quote highlights ho to play the infinite game of life or business.
“There is NO such thing as “WINNING BUSINESS” or “WINNING LIFE” , there is only AHEAD and BEHIND.
Realizing this will make us better equipped to play the infinite game
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Who is James Carse?
The renowned professor who is known for the very famous book titled “Finite And Infinite Games”.
Finite Games have fixed set of players , fixed set of rules , playing for a fixed duration with finite resources.The goal is to win in the finite game.
Whereas in an infinite game there are no fixed rules.The players may choose to play or drop out since the duration is infinite in nature.There is nothing like winning , in an infinite game.
This is the book and concept that inspired Simon Sinek to write his book titled “The Infinite Game”.
