Playing to Win PDF

This is the downloadable PDF version of the book Playing to Win. (Note: if you’re looking for the Amazon Kindle version, here it is.) Winning at competitive games requires a results-oriented mindset that many players are simply not willing to adopt. This book walks players through the entire process: how to choose a game and learn basic proficiency, how to break through the mental barriers that hold most players back, and how to handle the issues that top players face. It also includes a complete analysis of Sun Tzu’s book The Art of War and its applications to games of today. These foundational concepts apply to virtually all competitive games. The central life lesson is that achievement only comes through continuous self-improvement. I wrote those articles in order to share the lessons of competition I learned from tournaments in fighting games like Street Fighter. Although I used examples from fighting games, I wrote the articles to be applicable to all gamers with examples from m