UnknownTrenchWarrior💹🧲

Aeons are playing the infinite game, and a lot of them are doing it without even knowing what that is. Let me back up a bit. I've been studying a lot lately, reading more than I usually do, and the last book I picked up is called "The Infinite Game," by Simon Sinek (the guy who wrote "Start With Why"). I started it on a recommendation, and I ended up agreeing with most of it, but the part that stayed with me, the one the whole book is named after, is the concept of the infinite game, and how it stands against finite games. Here's the short version, in case you haven't come across it: a finite game is one you play to win, and then it ends, there's a scoreboard, a final whistle, a winner and a loser. An infinite game is one you play to keep playing, nobody wins it, so you're either still in it or you've dropped out. The easiest way to feel the difference is outside of markets. Someone starts running to lose ten pounds, that's finite, there's a number on the scale, a finish line, and the day they hit it the game is over. Most people stop there, because the thing they were chasing arrived and there was nothing under it. The infinite version isn't just running forever, that's only a habit with no end, it's when the running is in service of something bigger than the run itself, something you'll never fully finish. Sinek's examples make this clearer than mine could. The American founders didn't write "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as a finish line, they wrote it as a direction, a country still chasing it two centuries later and never quite arriving. Or the Russian scientists in the siege of Leningrad who starved to death guarding a seed bank, protecting a food supply for a future they knew they'd never see. Nobody wins that, you serve it, you hand it on, and the game keeps going after you're gone. That's the infinite game, and it always has a cause underneath it, not just a scoreboard removed. Now think about what most of crypto actually is. You get in, you get out, you try to catch the top, and then it's over, which is the finite game in its purest form. Most of what's around it runs on the same logic, the KOLs, the "innovative" projects, all playing a finite game where there's no real cause underneath, just extraction with better marketing. A lot of people got tired of that, and a lot of them ended up in SPX6900. What I find genuinely strange, in the best way, is how many of us walked in through the finite door, myself included, wanting quick and easy money like everyone else, and somewhere along the way started thinking and acting like the community actually points at, towards a peaceful life over greed. Then I read the commandments again with this in mind, and none of that is trading advice, it reads like people who already left the finite game for the other one.