Better at life by understanding infinite games

Becoming the person you want to be is an infinite game. -      Finite and infinite games are an interesting subject-      I was listening to simon sinek and he talked about the difference between the two.-      Finite games have set numbers of players, specific rules and an end point. -      Infinite games have rules that may change, the number of players may change and the purpose of an infinite game is to keep the game going. -      One night while traveling home from a single adult activity when my pornography use was weighing on me heavily, I looked out at the dark road and the distance ahead and felt a deep longing to be better. -      As the highway hummed along under me and the solitude of the car pulled my thoughts deeper into my actions I prayed as earnestly as I knew how that if I could just not have this one problem, I would be a pretty amazing person. -      What I didn’t see from that point in my life that I see so clearly now, is that becoming the person I want to be is not an arrival at some particular set of attributes-      It involves so much more than that.-      To become great at life we have to stop thinking about what we are doing in terms of arriving at an end -      We have to think of long term, continued, and sustainable growth and learning. -      So how does an infinite game work and how can you become a great player becoming the best version of your self that you can be. -      Five things have to happen to play in the infinite game according to simon. -      1. You have to have a just cause. -      2. You have to have trust in teams-      3. You have to have a worthy adversary-      4. You have to have existential flexibility-      5. You have to have the courage to lead 1 – just cause – you have to have a cause that is so just, right, or important that you would willingly sacrifice for it. -      As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints there is a lot of moral guidance about the cause we work for. -      Eternal life is a just cause that we look to willingly sacrifice for. -      An eternal family is another. -      The just cause for most of us is our desire to be in concert with our Heavenly Father. -      We believe that is the most important thing we can do, because we believe that it will bring joy into our lives. -      There are lots of great just causes. The work you do could be considered a just cause. -      The United states was founded on a just cause – it is about an ideal, so amazing, so important that we may never achieve the ideal in this life, but we will give our all to it while we can. -      This is what give’s us purpose. The striving toward an ideal. Sacrificing for a greater state of goodness. -       Simon talks about it this way, he says, “imagine a world that is different than the one we have now, that you believe if everything that you did in your organization went perfectly, that you would contribute to the building