Life can be played as a finite game, where you win and others lose, or an infinite game, where the goal is keeping everyone playing. The speaker argues abundance grows when you share opportunities generously instead of hoarding them out of scarcity and fear.
But the basic idea is, you know, we play the first half of life as a finite game. You follow the rules and the object is for me to win and for you to lose. That's a finite game. An infinite game is the rules are flexible. You can make your own rules. The point of an infinite game is to keep everybody playing. And to bring in as many people as possible. And again, we live in a world that seems to reward selfishness, sometimes even cheating, certainly appears to reward privilege. Um, and it's all based on this kind of idea of scarcity, like, oh well, there's just not enough to go around, so you better do whatever you have to do to get yours, and everybody else is just going to have to you know, do their best. Good luck. But the, the truth is there is an abundance of everything. In fact, the more, um, the more opportunity we take advantage of, the more opportunity we create. It's not that there's not enough to go around. There's plenty to go around. And the more generous we are about sharing that abundance and teaching that abundance, the more abundance is created. That's an infinite game approach to the game of life.
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