Here is the eighth blog post in a series featuring videos on YouTube, where I read a paragraph from one of my motivational books and use it as a prompt to speak freely.
This idea was inspired by the free-writing exercise well-known among writers. I used dice and timer to turn this free-speaking exercise into fun games. I hope you enjoy watching them and maybe trying out this gameful approach for yourself and tasks you want or need to tackle today.
“The chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as the question, ‘which came first: the chicken or the egg?’ The dilemma stems from the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens.” — Wikipedia
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The next step
I hope you enjoyed watching this little creativity game. If you want to find out more about the gameful nature of your mind and especially your subconscious, then I invite you to read Gameful Mind. To look at the book and buy it on Amazon, click on its title above or this image below:
If you want to see where else you can buy it, then go to the book’s page on this website here.
Alternatively, you can subscribe to my page, Optimist Writer, on ko-fi for $5 a month, and besides supporting what I do, you will also get access to all my motivational books, which I share there once a month or each time a book is out. Right now, you can get access to seven of my books there — one upon subscription or one-time support and six in the posts solely for subscribers. Gameful Mind will appear later this year or sooner upon explicit request from the subscribers.
Have you noticed that when you ask a question, you expect an answer right away? Even if you put one on social media and are aware that it will take time for those you are connected with to discover the question and answer it.
You find yourself re-opening the window of the respective social media shortly after closing it. Then you check your post for the answers. And you repeat it many times that day until the first answers start arriving. After that day, as well.
You become even more impatient toward yourself when there is a question you need to answer, especially if you pose this question yourself.
“How shall I do that?” you ask yourself often.
And with impatience growing, you might change the question into an order. If you are a writer, then you might recognize this one-sided dialogue:
“Come on! How hard can it be to write a paragraph? At least write something, for goodness sake!”
But, here is the problem:
“Your brain doesn’t like being barked at. It will, in essence, fold its arms and refuse to budge, much like a stubborn child who doesn’t want to put away his toys.” — Robert Maurer, The Spirit of Kaizen: Creating Lasting Excellence One Small Step at a Time
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The next step
If you want to find out more about the gameful nature of your mind and especially your subconscious, then I invite you to read Gameful Mind. To look at the book and buy it on Amazon, click on its title above or this image below:
If you want to see where else you can buy it, then go to the book’s page on this website here.
Alternatively, you can subscribe to my page, Optimist Writer, on ko-fi for $5 a month, and besides supporting what I do, you will also get access to all my motivational books, which I share there once a month or each time a book is out. Right now, you can get access to four of my books there — one upon subscription or one-time support and three in the posts solely for subscribers. Gameful Mind will appear later this year or sooner upon explicit request from the subscribers.
When we are offered a new idea or a new approach, many questions appear almost all by themselves.
Why should I do it? What is it good for? Who is responsible for making this idea come true? When should I find time for it? Where is it appropriate to do such a thing? Where shall I get resources to make it a reality? Who can help me in the process? And the master of all questions: How shall I do it?
After I formulated my approach to turning life into fun games — which I call “Self-Gamification” — in my book Self-Gamification Happiness Formula (about which I wrote yesterday in this post), I started receiving and answering many questions starting with the six question words: what, why, who, when, where, and how.
Simultaneously, two of the book’s readers have complained about its considerable length — over 90,000 words. The Self-Gamification Happiness Formula considers the approach bringing anthropology, kaizen, and gamification into a strong synergy from multiple perspectives and also shares some of my self-motivational game designs. But what these readers looked for was a short introduction into the Self-Gamification approach, which would concisely answer the what, why, who, when, where, and how questions.
Very brief answers to the
who, what, when, where, why, and how
questions
This little book’s description names the questions I answered in the book. I challenge myself now to a game to answer these questions in ten or fewer words each. Let’s see how I will do:
Q: Who is responsible for turning projects, activities, and whole lives into games?
A: You.
Q: What can be turned into games?
A: Anything and everything.
Q: When does it make sense to turn something into games?
A: Now or any time you need help.
Q: Where could or should projects and activities be turned into games?
A: Where you are.
Q: Why does it make sense to turn projects, activities, and even our whole lives into fun games?
A: Two of many reasons: lack of drama and effortless resourcefulness.
Q: How can we turn projects, activities, and our lives into games?
A: By using the three-in-one toolset embracing anthropology, kaizen, and gamification.
Wow, I didn’t plan it, but I did manage to fit my answers into ten or fewer words right from the first formulation of each of them. Yay! I won. 😀
To take a look at the book and buy it on Amazon, click on its title in this section above or the image below:
If you want to see where else you can buy it, then go to the book’s page on this website here.
Alternatively, you can subscribe to my page, Optimist Writer, on ko-fi for $5 a month, and besides supporting what I do, you will also get access to all my motivational books, which I share there once a month or each time a book is out. Right now, you can get access to four of my books there — one upon subscription or one-time support, and three in the posts solely for subscribers. Since the day before yesterday, the Self-Gamification Happiness Formula is one of the three. The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games will be one of the next books I will share there.
Enjoy answering any question you receive or ask yourself in a gameful and joyful way!
