If Life Is a Game, How Come I'm Not Having Fun? : A Guide to Life's Challenges (Suny series in Communication Studies)

Advocates applying a spirit of play to everyday life. In this lively and enlightening book, Paul Brenner suggests that treating life's events and everyday activities as a game would lead to a more socially functional and effective society. Through compelling suggestions and dynamic anecdotes, he conceptualizes all our economic, political, social, and spiritual pursuits in terms of role-play, and demonstrates the contribution this perspective can make to the happiness of individuals and to the systemic welfare of an increasingly complex social order.（State University of New York Press）