Some books make you feel good.
This one makes you think and then makes you act. Fair Isn't The Name of this Game is the book for every person who has ever played by the rules only to watch someone else rewrite them. It's honest. It's necessary. And it will change how you see every room you walk into.
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Marina Schmidt lives with her family on a small farm in Southwestern Ontario, where she balances motherhood, farm life, and her work at a local hospital. Through her personal journey with infertility, Marina discovered poetry as a source of comfort, healing, and strength during life’s most difficult moments. Her writing reflects the grief, hope, and emotional struggles shared by many facing similar challenges. With honesty and compassion, Marina’s poems offer readers reassurance that they are not alone in their pain. Her work is deeply personal, created to bring comfort, understanding, and healing to those navigating the difficult road of infertility.
You were told that if you worked hard, stayed honest, and followed the rules, things would work out. And maybe they did for a while. But at some point, you noticed the gap between what you were promised and what actually happened. Between the values on the wall and the decisions in the room. Between what counted as fair and what actually counted. Fair Isn't The Name of this Game is Marina Schmidt's frank and fearless exploration of that gap. Part personal narrative, part cultural critique, and part practical guide, this book names the unspoken dynamics that shape careers, relationships, and entire lives.
Section Intro: Fair Isn’t The Name of this Game is structured to take you on a journey from recognition to understanding to action. Each chapter builds on the last, giving you both the insight to see clearly and the tools to move forward with intention.
The game begins before we realize we're playing. In this opening chapter, Marina examines how unspoken rules, inherited assumptions, and curated narratives shape our expectations from the very start and what happens when reality refuses to match the script we were handed. Chapter Preview
Fairness isn't just about outcomes; it's about who gets to define them. This chapter dives deep into the mechanics of power: how it operates quietly, how it shapes perception, and why the standards we're measured against so often seem to shift depending on who's doing the measuring.
Understanding the game doesn't mean surrendering to it. In this pivotal chapter, Marina shares the strategies, mindset shifts, and hard-won perspectives that allow people to engage with an unfair world without losing themselves in it. This is where the book turns from diagnosis to direction.
Fair Isn't the Name of this Game has resonated with readers across industries, backgrounds, and experiences. Here's what they're saying.
We want fairness not because it’s guaranteed, but because we believe it should be. That tension — between what is and what ought to be — is exactly where courage lives. Fairness is
Adapting to an imperfect system is necessary. Disappearing into it is not. There’s a meaningful line between strategic flexibility and losing yourself — and knowing where it is changes everything. Adapting to difficult
Recognizing Shifting Standards Before They Cost You Excerpt: The most insidious unfairness isn’t the kind that announces itself — it’s the kind that quietly rearranges the furniture while you’re looking the other way.
