Dare to Play Games that Matter
Claude Hopkins wrote that work is the same as play.
Except for one important distinction.
As a young man he had a job working in a swamp, building a railroad. He worked long hard hours. The men who worked beside him got little pleasure out of it. They worked slowly. They counted the hours. And they wasted their money drinking and gambling on the weekends.
But his foreman, the man who lead his team, found joy in the process. To him it was a game.
The foreman married
the prettiest girl in town.
The highlight of his attitude is not that he chose to play…it is that he chose what he played.
We are all doing our life’s work,
whether we choose to or not.
Most people are terrified of this. They take no responsibility. They carry excuses with them like giant sheilds. They waste time doing nothing, avoiding the very things that will make their life meaningful.
But there are some people who know how easy it is to take control of their lives.
And the beauty of it — the sheer pleasure behind it — is that everything that makes a person successful can be turned into a game.
It is up to each of us to choose which games we play.