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Retrieved, story added and reposted Feb 2026

I thought I still owned a copy, but unpacking the box that held all my unused business and mindset books, I could not find it.
I must have settled for knowing I already had the collected works of Florence Scovel Shinn, so that there was no need to hold on to the single book, The Game of Life And How To Play It.
Originally published in 1925.

I would have preferred to compare, and seeing that first sentence in double, but we will have to do with one.
“Many people consider life a battle,” Florence Scovel Shinn writes.
“But it is not a battle, it is a game.”

And one I started to understand a little bit better, as I cleared shelves so I could display all those unearthed business and mindset books.
I wanted them nearby, even though I stopped both mindset work a long time ago, and no longer see myself as an entrepreneur either.

So I spent the half hour it took me to get everything sorted, wondering:
“Why do I want these books nearby?”

And came up with two answers.
Which conveniently can both be tied to the idea of A Game.

First of all, I realized that I had indeed seen mindset practices as well as entrepreneurial practices, as a game.
That these books represent something I love, not something I need.
I love them just like I love Bon Jovi’s 2024 behemoth book “Forever”.

And the second was that these books were the closest I had to making a concept actionable, which I have been toying with since last year.
And that I expect to become my core message.

I’m obsessed with viewing life and in particular processes, through the lens of an apocalypse.
Symbolizing any mayhem that might uproot our systems.

Before anything, ask yourself:
“What are we looking at here?
How delicate is this thing, I’m about to commit to?”

The ultimate player can still play when A stands for apocalypse.

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Starting June 2023, they found their final form as blogposts here on the Catacombe blog, pretty quickly.

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