Finite and Infinite Games (Paperback)

from dmzach

A great little book on a way to look at life. Finite games have rules and you have to try to win the game. Infinite games are those which the goal is not to win, but to play. If you try to win, you lose because when you finally win, you're no longer playing. The goal in the greater game of life i...

from dogrover

Continually pushing my personal horizons, Carse reminds me of what I often choose to forget: that everything of importance is rooted in personal choice, and that choice and joy are inseparably connected.It is daunting to write a review of a book that almost causally overturns much of the conventi...

from johnverdon

This is a wonderful - must read - book, beautifully writen in a simple and clear style and yet its simplicity provides a profound insight into life as seen through a perspective of an infinite game or a finite game. For instance in finite games players play in the boundaries, but to play an infin...

from Aspenhugger

"There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play." ~~back cover I read a trade paperback, with this ISBN & cover. I've had this book for 20 years or m...

from ltyphair

I actually think I bought this book when it first came out when I was around 14. When I first read it thru gulping it like water I thought to myself this is so obvious, this is how I think. Typical teenage know it all response. But after a couple of months I realized it had changed the way I thou...