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{{a|book review|{{image|Finite Game|jpg|{{br|The Infinite Game}} by | {{a|book review|{{image|Finite Game|jpg|{{br|The Infinite Game}} by Simon Sinek. Dreadful.}} }}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 it and the handful of hours you may waste slogging through Sinek’s wittering, if you just set Sinek’s book aside — 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 it is so worth it. | And here let me pause this review, and say you can save yourself the ten minutes it will take to read it and the handful of hours you may waste slogging through Sinek’s wittering, if you just set Sinek’s book aside — 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 it is so worth it. | ||
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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. | ||
Sinek says, “if this book inspired you please pass it on to someone you would like to inspire”. | |||
I guess the converse is also true. So let us say, with Dorothy Parker: | |||
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” | |||