What do you disagree with?

8 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken excerpt arguing that 'infinite-minded' thinking does not preclude finite goals. The speaker says metrics and targets are useful for human motivation but must serve a larger purpose; growth or numbers without context are criticized. The main tension is between defenders of finite-minded approaches and proponents of infinite-minded framing.

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Where I tend to battle with people is they think it's either infinite or finite and they defend finite. And the whole point of infinite minded thinking is you can absolutely have finite games. In an infinite game, just like I can try and be healthy and still set a goal of how much weight I want to lose, I can still have goals and numbers. Metrics are very important. Human beings are tangible animals. We, we need to see the numbers to make us feel like we're making progress. But there has to be a context. Why are we counting these things? It can't just be growth for growth's sake or to make me rich or, you know, to hit some arbitrary goal and some arbitrary date. What is the point of growth? What is the point of hitting those numbers? It has to contribute to something bigger. So yeah, the biggest arguments are really the finite minded defenders, to be quite honest.