Florence Scovel Shinn
The Game of Life and How to Play It
Original 1925 Edition
Life is a game. Here are the rules most people never learn.
Published in 1925, Florence Scovel Shinn was decades ahead of her time. She described life as a game with definite rules — and most people lose simply because they don't know the rules. This book is brief, sharp, and surprisingly practical.
- 🎮 Life is a game with specific rules — most people just never learned them
- 🧠 Written by a woman in 1925 who understood what most still don't today
- 🔥 The law of nonresistance: why fighting your problems makes them worse
- ⚡ Read in 2 hours. Applied for a lifetime.
Key Wisdom From the Book
These are not motivational quotes — these are the ideas that have shaped how millions of people think about success, purpose, and living well.
Game
"Life is a game and we are the players."
Word
"The object of the game of life is to see clearly one's good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil."
Nonresistance
"Nonresistance is an absolute law."
Intuition
"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way."
Desire
"Every man has within himself the complete pattern of his perfect self."
Faith
"Faith and fear cannot exist at the same time."
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