The Top 10 Reasons to Read this Book

1 how to learn from the lives of the masters of the art of living -- Jesus, Buddha, Socrates, Confucius, and more -- how to attain self-mastery and how to interpret events so that you get the maximum power and joy out of your life
2 how to strategically employ the five grandest institutions -- the church, the economy, the state, the academy, and the family -- to win the power game of your life
3 how to recognize that the kingdom of heaven lies within you and depends on your relationship with yourself and with everyone else around you
4 how to ask yourself the questions and do the tasks and challenges necessary to embark on and succeed in your quest for enlightenment
5 how to apply the timeless elements of the human condition to find peace with yourself, your life, and the world
6 how to open up a clearing where you can find the path through life that fits you best
7 how to finance the leisure time necessary to determine who you want to become
8 how to learn that you win the game of life when you find happiness with yourself
9 how to become a philobios -- an individual so in love with life and with the world that he finds everyone and everything in it full of wonder
10 the companion volume -- The Power Game Volume I -- explores the timeless elements of the human condition from the perspective of society toward the individual