Often, life can seem to be a serious business. We could also look at it is as a game, or a series of games. They include • Survival • Love • Power • Pleasure • Courage • Creativity
The culmination is the Master Game, which one plays to gain not things or esteem, but knowledge, and to surpass one's limits as a human.
Everyone plays these games, whether they want to or not. Mastering them makes the difference between a rich and successful life and one of disappointment and failure.
In this brief, bracing, but insightful book, Richard Smoley will give a lively but profound account of these games. He talks about • the ways we usually play them • the mistakes we often make • and how we can play them to the benefit of ourselves and others
