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Games reflect behavior.
They are instant
feedback systems.

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Chapter Five: Lesson 5
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Just like a board game, the world is always providing us with
instant feedback. We could learn a lot if we tuned in more. One day 
not long ago, I complained to my wife that the cleaners must have 
shrunk my pants. My wife gently smiled and poked me in the stomach 
to inform me that the pants had not shrunk. Something else had 
expanded—me!
The CASHFLOW game was designed to give every player personal 
feedback. Its purpose is to give you options. If you draw the boat card 
and it puts you into debt, the question is: “Now what can you do? 
How many different financial options can you come up with?” That is 
the purpose of the game: to teach players to think and create new and 
various financial options. Thousands of people throughout the world 
have played this game. The players who get out of the Rat Race the 
quickest are the people who understand numbers and have creative 
financial minds. They recognize different financial options. Rich 
people are often creative and take calculated risks. People who take 
the longest are people who are not familiar with numbers and often 
do not understand the power of investing. 
Some people playing CASHFLOW 
gain lots of money in the game, but 
they don’t know what to do with 
it. Even though they have money, 
everyone else seems to be getting
ahead of them. And that is true in
real life. There are a lot of people who 
have a lot of money and do not
get ahead financially.
Limiting your options is the same as hanging on to old ideas.
I have a friend from high school who now works at three jobs. Years
ago, he was the richest of all my classmates. When the local sugar
plantation closed, the company he worked for went down with the 
plantation. In his mind, he had but one option, and that was the
old option: Work hard. The problem was that he couldn’t find an 
equivalent job that recognized his seniority from the old company.