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{{a|book review|{{image|Finite Game|jpg|{{br|The Infinite Game}} by {{author|Simon Sinek}}. Execrable.}} }}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. | {{a|book review|{{image|Finite Game|jpg|{{br|The Infinite Game}} by {{author|Simon Sinek}}. Execrable.}} }}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. | ||
And here let me pause this review, and say you can save yourself the ten minutes it will take to read this review and the hours you may waste slogging through Sinek’s wittering if you just set aside Sinek’s book — it is one, in Dorothy | And here let me pause this review, and say you can save yourself the ten minutes it will take to read this review and the hours you may waste slogging through Sinek’s wittering if you just set aside Sinek’s book — it is one, in {{author|Dorothy Parker}}’s terms, to be thrown aside with great force — and immerse yourself in Carse’s [[Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility|magnificent original]]. To be sure, it demands much, much more work (it’s a short book, but boy is it dense) but so worth it. | ||
If only Simon Sinek had taken the trouble to put in the necessary work to understand a gem he then spends 272 pages misrepresenting. | |||
Alas, “basic” idea, in more ways than one: Carse’s hypothesis is subtle, deep and many-splendoured. Its ideas continue to unfold on you, like their own infinite game, months after you first ingest them. | Alas, “basic” idea, in more ways than one: Carse’s hypothesis is subtle, deep and many-splendoured. Its ideas continue to unfold on you, like their own infinite game, months after you first ingest them. | ||