Today In Summary
Reflection Point
Quote for the week
Favourite things
3 Things worth sharing
In conclusion
🪔 Reflection Point
Not understanding the infinite nature of certain life games, we find ourselves using finite tools and mindsets to prove ourselves worthy of continuous existence (intentionally or influenced), while secretly suffering from an existential crisis.
In the words of James P. Carson (author of Finite & Infinite games), we constantly feature in at least two types of games as long as we keep pushing to live a life of purpose, they include:
Finite Games
Infinite Games
A finite game is played with some form of bounded context in view, it's expected to end at some unanimously agreed timeframe, examples include football and secondary school racing games, they are short-termed. An infinite game on the other hand has no spatial or numerical boundaries, the players cannot say when the game began, nor do they care nor know when it's going to come to an end, examples include marriage, business e.t.c
Here's what I've found out:
The race for creativity, building a business, finding your love partner, attaining a business goal, nursing a product idea, finding meaning to one’s life, stepping out on a day-to-day to become a better person, attaining heights in one’s career (to mention a few) are all Infinite Games. In other words, these are endless games that in the proper sense have no winner.
Seeing that this is the case, then we might need to re-evaluate our concept of Competition.
When playing a finite game, a player ought to compete with the other players within the game's bounded context because there's a winning in view at a specific time. While in an infinite game, the danger of competing against a definite player (who seems to be the best), is that you can only be as better as the person you are competing with, leaving out the very true nature of yourself in a bit to chase or beat another.
In an infinite game, no one wins or loses, however, some people will drop out along the way when the focus is lost.
Being a long-term game, the aim is to get motivated by the great things others are doing, while constantly competing with oneself and keeping a stern focus on being your very best. That's how to stay relevant in a game that never ends.
📜 Quote for the week
When we work hard for something we don't believe in, it's called stress. When we work hard for something we do believe in, it's called passion. @simonsinek
Hence, do more of hard-work on things you believe in, life is too short to do otherwise! (I added this)
😍 Favourite things
🎙 Podcast: Down a rabbit hole with Seth Godin - with Simon Sinek.
🎤 Discovered a new Podcast with really valuable content: Bit of Optimism
📚 Book I'm Looking forward to reading/listening to ‘Song of Significance’, by Seth Godin
💡 3 Things worth sharing
Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead, by James Clear
Working in an atmosphere where things are constantly complicated? check out How to stay innovative
Struggling to narrow down what you should be doing? check out Founders' Effect
In conclusion,
this week’s issue is based on James P. Carson & Simon Sinek’s work,
leave some love, comments and share if you've found this helpful in any way,
always been a pleasure working with Tolani on this, special thanks,
happy new week, I hope you get the best out of it. Bye for now.
Dami ✌
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