Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse
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Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse
James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games (New York: Free Press, 1986).
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: For Fans of Atomic Habits
If the goal of finite play is to win titles for their timelessness, and thus eternal life for oneself, the essence of infinite play is the paradoxical engagement with temporality that Meister Eckhart called “eternal birth.”
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility BY JAMES P. CARSE
Daniel H. Pink • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
A finite player is trained not only to anticipate every future possibility, but to control the future, to prevent it from altering the past. This is the finite player in the mode of seriousness with its dread of unpredictable consequence. Infinite players, on the other hand, continue their play in the expectation of being surprised. If surprise is
... See moreJames P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
In infinite games, there is no finish line. No point where you can declare victory and be done. The meaning isn’t in the outcome—at least for me, it’s in the continuous unfolding, the endless discovery of what’s possible, the deepening of one’s capacity to learn and serve
Do You Have to Grind to Be Great?
The infinite player in us does not consume time but generates it. Because infinite play is dramatic and has no scripted conclusion, its time is time lived and not time viewed.