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The Game of Life and How to Play It
Florence Scovel Shinn · 1871–1940
Shinn's first and best-known book treats life as a game of giving and receiving, played with words. Through stories from her practice in New York she sets out the 'laws' she believed govern it — non-resistance, forgiveness, intuition, the power of the spoken word — and gives the affirmations she prescribed.
- First published
- 1925
- Difficulty
- Accessible
- Reading time
- About 1½ hours
- Translation
- Written in English
Reading time: 21,560 words in Project Gutenberg text #74878, read at 238 words per minute.
Published by the author in 1925.
- the spoken word
- non-resistance
- forgiveness
- intuition
- affirmation
Where to read it
- Read free — Project GutenbergPublic domain in the USA; check your local law outside it. · checked 11 Oct 2026(opens in a new tab)
- Read free — WikisourcePublic domain transcription. · checked 11 Oct 2026(opens in a new tab)
Copyright
- Kenya
- Public domain (author d. 1940)
- United States
- Public domain (published 1925)
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Questions for discussion
Shinn says that whatever we send out returns to us. Is that a moral law, a psychological one, or a hope?
Choose one of her stories. What explanation, other than hers, would account for what happened?
What is the difference between non-resistance and passivity in her account?
Write one affirmation in your own words. What made it hard or easy to say?
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