What If Life Was a Board Game?: Transpose the Principles of Games (Cooperation, Strategy, Risk-Taking) to Real Life (Unabridged‪)‬

What if life was a board game?

Translating the principles of games (cooperation, strategy, risk-taking) to real life

What if you had never really read the rules of the game? What if you could choose your role, adjust your strategy, bounce back from a loss, and even rewrite some rules?

This book invites you to take a new look at your daily life. It is not a question of fleeing reality, but of inhabiting it differently. Like a game. A serious game, but a game nonetheless—made of moves, alliances, twists and turns, and learning.

As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn how to:

Collaborate rather than compete.
Anticipating without rigidity.
Deal with chance without submitting.
To find pleasure again, even when you don’t win.
Start over, reinvent yourself, and build a life that looks like you.


In a style that is at once accessible, profound and inspiring, Alain Samson offers us a stimulating journey where play becomes a living metaphor for our choices, our relationships and our freedom.

You don’t have to wait for the next game. You’re already playing. The only real question is: how do you want to play now?