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{{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 | {{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 for this, Sinek’s own take on the subject. | ||
Sinek’s | Alas, “basic” idea, in more ways than one: 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. | ||
Would that you could say the same about Sinek’s book. No such luck. Where Sinek understands Carse at all, he does so superficially and in a flat monochrome. But that isn't often. Mostly, Sinek misses Carse’s point altogether, and presents “finite mindsets” and “infinite mindsets” mutually-exclusive negative and positive moral values, and hence delivers a glib, lumpen social democratic tract, which is not Carse’s industry at all. | |||
Sinek manages 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 of selfish Gorgon; something he emphatically was not. | |||
Now Carse’s book is elegant but gnomic. It asks careful reading and, as you’d expect of an infinite game asks, the reader to work hard. But it rewards effort in a way that Sinek ’s superficial reading will not. | |||
The greatest tragedy will be if Sinek Congress to wipe | |||
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. |