Playing the Game

I used to be real good at playing the game:
you might wonder what game?
the game of life and success.
When I was in college, I was not the most successful of my group, yet I didn't have the connections that some of my group had with professors, i.e being close relatives of the professors, yet I managed to play it smart, and play by the game rules, as I didn't want to waste my time challenging the rules, instead, I played the game, and looking back now, I played it well, real well.
Ewh! that was my reaction when I look back and remember how I acted when I was working, when I first started work, I challenged ALL the rules of the game, as I didn't understand the game, and am still trying to,
now a new game that I am trying to understand its rule, once I get the rules right, and understand them completely then I can play the game and score real high, is it this how any game is played!