🧩 Play Dirty, Stay Clean: Winning the Human Game Without Losing Your Soul

Life isn’t fair — it’s a game. Some play dirty, some stay clean, and most don’t realise they’re playing at all.

Play Dirty, Stay Clean is your moral compass in an unfair world. A field guide to human behaviour, power moves, and integrity under pressure — written in plain, punchy language that cuts through the noise.

You’ll learn:
• Why “nice” people lose power and what to do instead.
• How to spot manipulation without becoming cynical.
• How to win without betraying your own values.

Start here. Every other book in The Human Game Series builds from these insights.

🧩 “You can’t win if you don’t know the rules — and you can’t stay human if you don’t know the cost.”

Chapter 1. The Lie of the Nice.

The Seduction of Niceness

We're taught from childhood that being "nice" is the highest virtue.

Nice people are liked, trusted, and welcomed.

They get the teacher's smile, the job offer, the approval nod.

But niceness has a hidden agenda — and a hidden cost.

Much of what we call "nice" isn't kindness at all; it's compliance. It's the social lubricant that keeps everyone comfortable, even when something's wrong.

Niceness works… until it doesn't. It keeps the peace, but it also keeps you small.

It earns acceptance, but often at the expense of self-respect.

True kindness tells the truth .....................