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{{a|book review | {{a|book review|{{br|The Infinite Game}} by {{author|Simon Sinek}} }}The [[JC]] is indebted to TED-talker extraordinaire {{author|Simon Sinek}} for the TED talk which introduced him to {{author|James P. Carse}}’s obscure but brilliant book {{br|Finite and Infinite Games}}, which provides the basic idea this, Sinek’s own book, {{br|The Infinite Game}}. But, alas, “basic” idea is right: Carse’s hypothesis is subtle, deep and many-splendoured. Its ideas continue to unfold on you, kind their own infinite game, months after you first ingest them. | ||
Sinek’s reading, where it understands Carse at all, is superficial and monochromatic. But mostly, Sinek misses Sinek’s point altogether, and reads it as a kind of lumpen social democratic tract, which it absolutely is not. In his reading Sinek managez also to misrepresent [[Adam Smith]], [[Shareholder capitalism]], [[Evolution by natural selection]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] and, most egregiously of all poor old Milton Friedman, whom Sinek paints as a kind if Randian Gorgon; something he emphatically was not. | |||
Anecdotal, and ironically historical — it is very easy reconstruct an “infinite mindset” from a completed story. Not so easy to predict one. | Anecdotal, and ironically historical — it is very easy reconstruct an “infinite mindset” from a completed story. Not so easy to predict one. | ||