The Game of Life and How to Play It

Florence Scovel Shinn helped to define the personal success genre in this classic book.

Her message is simple yet powerful, written in the new thinking tradition: we get back what we put into the world through our actions, energy, and attitudes.

Negativity and pessimism are reciprocated, but we may generate success and joy in all we do by flipping the script in favour of positive attitudes and affirmations. Life, according to Shinn, is a game of giving and receiving, not a war between us and the rest of the universe.

We get back what we offer to the world, whether it's the dark weight of fear and inhibition or the lightness of joy and empowerment.