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What Game Are You Playing?: A Framework for Redefining Success and Achieving What Matters Most

by Robin Moriarty

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It's All a Game From the moment we are born, others' expectations shape our behaviors, choices, and definitions of success. We build our personal and professional lives around those expectations and at some point, many of us wonder if we are on the right path. We may want to make changes, but it's difficult and we don't know how to start. In What Game Are You Playing?, author Robin Moriarty, PhD shares her view on what being "successful" should look like, and those views will be a surprise to many. According to Moriarty, life is a game, and it is up to each individual to determine just what kind of game they want to play. The author guides readers through a process that shows them how to assess their current state and outlines the steps they need to take in order to achieve their new game and own version of success.The book enables readers to-- * Gain awareness of the way they want to live their lives * Reframe success on their own terms * Map out what they will need to do to get there Through a series of examples and exercises designed as a game, Moriarty helps readers recognize--and then step away from--the expectations of others so they can define and pursue their own version of success in work and in life. Through this process of finding and designing their own games,, readers will no longer be a pawn in someone else's.… (more)
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Author Robin Moriarty poses an interesting question: How do you define success for yourself? Are you holding yourself to your own scoreboard or are you living your life based on the expectations of others? In What Game Are You Playing Robin Moriarty explains that we have been conditioned to measure our success based on what others expect of us and not what we truly want for ourselves. She then provides a framework on how to examine your own life, map out what is most important to you and how to make changes so you can live your life based on your own success measures. She provides many examples both from her own life and from others to help get the reader going. It's such a simple and profound concept.

This is a case of reading the right book at exactly the right time. I've been wanting to make some changes in my life, feeling dissatisfied with certain areas, but without really identifying why. Robin's way of gamifying how you measure self-success and the exercises provided in this book were exactly what I needed to get me thinking and help me map out a game plan to make changes starting today. I can already see this is going to be a book I reread many times. I hope others find it just as useful and impactful as I did.

I won a copy of this book in a GoodReads giveaway. ( )
  Narilka | Sep 22, 2019 |
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It's All a Game From the moment we are born, others' expectations shape our behaviors, choices, and definitions of success. We build our personal and professional lives around those expectations and at some point, many of us wonder if we are on the right path. We may want to make changes, but it's difficult and we don't know how to start. In What Game Are You Playing?, author Robin Moriarty, PhD shares her view on what being "successful" should look like, and those views will be a surprise to many. According to Moriarty, life is a game, and it is up to each individual to determine just what kind of game they want to play. The author guides readers through a process that shows them how to assess their current state and outlines the steps they need to take in order to achieve their new game and own version of success.The book enables readers to-- * Gain awareness of the way they want to live their lives * Reframe success on their own terms * Map out what they will need to do to get there Through a series of examples and exercises designed as a game, Moriarty helps readers recognize--and then step away from--the expectations of others so they can define and pursue their own version of success in work and in life. Through this process of finding and designing their own games,, readers will no longer be a pawn in someone else's.

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