The Game of Life and How to Play It
Florence Scovel Shinn · 1925
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About the book
New York's most practical metaphysician, writing in wisecracks and anecdotes about clients who got exactly what they asked for, including the parts they did not mean. Her claim is that life runs on rules, and that most people lose for want of knowing them.
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Part 1 · The Rules Behind the Game. The first six slides, free.
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“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.” Shinn’s opening reversal changes what success requires. A battle rewards force, resistance, and defeating an opponent. A game rewards knowing the rules and noticing how your own moves affect play.
Her rules are spiritual laws: dependable relationships between what a person sends out and what later returns. Whether or not we accept them literally, Shinn asks us to replace helpless struggle with lawful participation. The first question is no longer “How do I overpower this?” but “What move am I making, and what rule does it engage?”
Inside the course
12 parts- Life as a game with rules, not a battle with luckFree above
- Watch your words: the sentence you keep repeating
- The law of prosperity, and the «I can't afford it» habit
- Nonresistance: the fight you win by walking away from
Questions
Is The Game of Life and How to Play It free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. The Game of Life and How to Play It is waiting in the app’s library.
