The reason to play the game is to be free of it.” — Naval Ravikant
= 人生賽局
- Be carefully selective/picky in the games you choose to play. Which game you play is much more important than how well you play the game. Fight battles you are destined to win.
- Don’t play games you don’t want to win. If you play stupid games, you will win stupid prizes. Escape the rat race cycle.
- Analogy: 夾娃娃機
- 本體 (e.g., 機台造型、擺設方式)
- 贈品 (e.g., 保夾金額、物品價值)
| Finite Game (有限賽局) | Infinite Game (無限賽局) |
|---|---|
| is short-term, soon-ending | is long-term, never-ending |
| = Zero-Sum Game (零和遊戲) 1 = Multi-Player Game = Status Game 2 | = Positive-Sum Game (正和遊戲) 3 = Single-Player Game = Wealth Game |
| You win by avoiding errors and waiting for your opponent to make errors | You win by hitting incredible/elegant shots |
| The goal is to win the game | The goal is to stay in the game and continue playing forever |
| 打敗多少人? (Competition) | 幫助多少人? (Collaboration) |
| Either WIN or LOSE (Any gain corresponds directly with an equivalent loss) | WIN-WIN（互通有無、互利共生 (symbiosis)） |
| Egoism (Selfishness) 利己主義 | Altruism 利他主義 |
| Fixed/Scarcity Mindset | Growth/Abundance Mindset |
| 有限賽局的玩家是為了防止未來改變過去 | 無限賽局的玩家是為了讓未來改變過去 |
| Mindset | Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Competitor | “You win, I lose” | “My success” | “I rise by outdoing others” |
| Comrade 同志；戰友 | “You win, I win” | “Our success” | “We rise by lifting others” |
- 出奇制勝結束了有限遊戲；而出乎意料則是無限遊戲繼續進行的原因
- To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. (準備應對驚喜，意味著接受訓練；準備迎接驚喜，意味著接受教育)
- While training is essential for certain scenarios, education is more important for truly navigating the complexities and uncertainties of life
- Training: A more rigid approach where you aim to minimize surprises by mastering specific skills or responses.
- 訓練是在未來重複一個已經完成的過去
- Education: A more dynamic, flexible approach that allows you to engage with and learn from surprises when they happen.
- 教育是將未完成的過去延續到未來
- Training: A more rigid approach where you aim to minimize surprises by mastering specific skills or responses.
- While training is essential for certain scenarios, education is more important for truly navigating the complexities and uncertainties of life
The 2 Types of Status by Sahil Bloom
| Earned Status Game | Bought Status Game |
|---|---|
| Could the richest person in the world acquire the thing I want by tomorrow? | Would I still be interested in buying (or doing/learning) this thing if I could not show it to anyone or tell anyone about it? |
| If the answer to this question is NO, you’re playing an Earned Status Game. | If the answer to this question is NO, you’re playing a Bought Status Game. |
| 要裡子 | 爭面子 |
Escape competition through authenticity
Everything in life has an opportunity cost
Footnotes
Carse, James P. 2012. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility. First Free Press paperback edition. New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Free Press. ↩