What is sucess? How do you know when you have (or haven’t) achieved it? What’s the measure?
When I was little, we had a game called “Careers” that I loved to play. At the start of the game, you wrote down a secret goal, a combination of money, happiness and fame that added up to 60, that you had to collect throughout the game, by entering various side career paths, like “Business” or “Hollywood” or “Moon Exploration.” (Yes, we were playing a very old version of the game.) After each career path you picked up “Experience” cards that could be used in place of a roll of the die, so you had control over which square you ended up on. Whoever got to her or his personal goal first won. I usually balanced it fairly evenly, with a weight toward more money, since that was generally reliably more easy to pick up (Go to college, leave w/ the “science” degree, go to “Sea” a few times (really cheap experience), then head over to “Moon Exploration,” use your experience cards to avoid landing in the hospital and get that $10,000. (Soooooo much more money when you’re eight.) My Dad would often exasperate us by making his goal 60 happiness. Now I understand why. And sometimes he won.
