{"id":11903,"date":"2017-02-26T11:17:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T05:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=11903"},"modified":"2020-11-15T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T08:28:51","slug":"finite-and-infinite-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2017\/02\/26\/finite-and-infinite-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Finite and Infinite Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>James P Carse<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The last book that fundamentally affected my way of thinking was &#8216;Antifragile&#8217;. It altered my perspective on ownership, planning, and in general, the approach to various events and things. It remains a favourite. But this book took my thinking to a different plane altogether, and has probably altered it irrevocably. Credit goes to James P Carse for at least two things &#8211; one for the thinking that clarified everything around us to this level of &#8216;simplicity&#8217;, and two, for explaining it in a manner that makes it easy to absorb.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite.&#8221; From politics and wars to sports and business, finite games are all around us. They are played to be won, and are over when there is a victor. There is only one infinite game and its only purpose is continuing the play. In both, &#8220;whoever plays, plays freely.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The author brings out the wonderful nuances that differentiate the two, through (just) semantics &#8211; rules and boundaries vs horizons, power vs strength, theatre vs drama, society vs culture, and so on. The applications are practically across all domains &#8211; sexuality, history, science, wealth, religion, society &#8211; and once one understands the concept, it is easy to see how it manifests across everything. (look vs see)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited&#8221;. If I could give only one book to a person, this would be a contender.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12095 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Finite-Infinite-Games.jpg\" alt=\"finite-infinite-games\" width=\"538\" height=\"531\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Finite-Infinite-Games.jpg 538w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Finite-Infinite-Games-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Finite-Infinite-Games-50x50.jpg 50w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 538px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 538\/531;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James P Carse The last book that fundamentally affected my way of thinking was &#8216;Antifragile&#8217;. It altered my perspective on ownership, planning, and in general, the approach to various events and things. It remains a favourite. But this book took my thinking to a different plane altogether, and has probably altered it irrevocably. Credit goes <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2017\/02\/26\/finite-and-infinite-games\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6004,6003,6005],"tags":[5002,5001],"class_list":["post-11903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-favourites","category-non-fiction","category-worldview","tag-finite-and-infinite-games","tag-james-p-carse"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12096,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions\/12096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}