As James Carse explained in his book, life also has finite games, which have a clear goal and end at some point, and infinite ones, which don’t have winners or losers and are ongoing.
And it’s important to differentiate them so you can “play” them correctly.
For example, your health is an infinite game. You have to constantly take care of it. There is no point in your life that you can be like, “Oh, I’ve reached peak health; now I can relax and not do anything else about it for the rest of my life”.
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