Simon Sinek contrasts finite and infinite mindsets: chasing short-term wins like power and money versus leaving things and people better than you found them. Teachers exemplify the infinite approach, creating lasting impact by enabling others to succeed.
What does it mean to live an infinite life? Clearly, our lives are finite.
We're born, we die, we come, we go.
But life is infinite. The game of life will continue with us or without us.
Which means every single one of us has a choice.
We don't get to choose the nature of the game.
Life is infinite. We don't even get to choose if.
We want to play in the game or night.
Once you're born, you're in it.
We get one choice.
Do you want to play with a.
Finite mindset or do you want to.
Play with an infinite mindset?
To play with a finite mindset means.
Waking up every day and saying, I'm going to be the best. I'm going to be better than everybody else. I'm going to accumulate more power, more responsibility, more money.
Whatever it is, whatever your metric is.
I'm going to get more than anybody else me.
And when you die, you take none of it with you.
Or we can choose to live our lives with an infinite mindset. Which means I'm going to leave this world, this school, in better shape than I found it. It means I'm going to devote my life to see that those around me rise.
And we know that we're living with.
An infinite mindset because our obsession is seeing that we have an impact on the lives of the people around us.
We've all had teachers, and some of you are those teachers where 20 or 30 years from now, I can go to one of your students and say, you're a remarkable human being. You've accomplished so much in your life. How did you become the person you are today? And they will tell me your name.
We all remember the teacher who believed in us. We all remember the teacher who had our backs. We all remember the teacher saw something in us that nobody else saw. We've forgotten all the others, but we remember those couple. And that's what it means to live with an infinite mindset. It means we divert ourselves to that mindset for everyone in our lives. That other teachers will say that about us. Other principals will say that about us. Other students will say that about us. Our friends will say that about us. I am who I am today because of you. And I will commit to live the same life that you taught me how to live. And you will literally live on beyond your own lifestyle, your own lifetime, that when you're gone, others will carry your work for you.
This is what it means to live an infinite life. And it is just a choice.
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