{"id":602,"date":"2015-03-10T02:40:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T02:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=602"},"modified":"2015-03-10T02:43:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T02:43:08","slug":"monopoly-no-pain-no-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/monopoly-no-pain-no-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Monopoly: No Pain, No Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was late. Sunday night. Spring Break was still young. The kitchen table had been cleared and stood ready for play. My roommate’s dad hoisted the dusty, yellowed game box from the top shelf of the hallway closet. After a few minutes of scrambling to be sure we had all of the property cards, the game was on.<\/p>\n

Two hours later, from Mediterranean Avenue to Boardwalk, all was owned. Though the name of the game it be, no monopoly existed. Anticipating the up-and-coming stall, I had already made a few attempts at trade, but to no avail. At the time, my entrepreneurial spirit was no match for the missing ingredient at the heart of each and every of those sales failures: pain. But now, only a few minutes later, things had changed…<\/p>\n

Pain: The realization that the game had suddenly become less interesting. Pain: The discovery that it could go on for hours at this rate. Pain: The desire to win and an new understanding that the only way to do so is by obtaining a monopoly.<\/p>\n

As you probably have already guessed, my next trade was successful. I’d like to think my former sales efforts primed the pump, but I honestly think it all came down to one thing. Pain.<\/p>\n

Pain made things happen – it kept the game moving, the fun happening, and produced a winner in the end (sadly, ’twas not me). Professor Sweet is spot-on in class. I’m hoping that, someday, I’ll take these in-class and out-of-class lessons to heart and win a \u00a0game or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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