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Finite and Infinite Games

By James P. Carse

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780345341846

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Book Description

An extraordinary book that will dramatically change the way you experience life.
Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life, the games we play in business and politics, in the bedroom and on the battlefied -- games with winners and losers, a beginning and an end. Infinite games are mContinue

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A book based on an idea that I loved: everything we live is a play/game. And there exists only two kind of games: finite and infinite. Finite games players take their play so seriously that they forget they are playing, so they struggle to win. Infinite games players don’t take the play seriously an ... (continue)

A book based on an idea that I loved: everything we live is a play/game. And there exists only two kind of games: finite and infinite. Finite games players take their play so seriously that they forget they are playing, so they struggle to win. Infinite games players don’t take the play seriously and play to create new possibilities for themselves and for the others. At the end of the book obviously you want to be an infinite player.
p.s. The second part has too much a taste of religion to be appreciated by me, but take it only a personal opinion.

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