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E13 Yu-Kai Chou: Using The Octalysis Framework To Gamify Life, Learning, and Business

Aidan's Infinite Play

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Game Design - What Is the Key to Flow?

One of the reasons I think games are so engaging in comparison to real life is they naturally create an environment that is more apt to getting us into like a super flow state. And when you're in this state of flow, you lose a sense of time, you losing a sense of self, you become quite happy. You also become pretty unhappy when you get interrupted and out of flow. We get grumpy because we're just taking out a flow. So, this flow state is a good place to be. Of course, time goes by fast. It's not that great gamers are grumpy. It's that anyone in flow, whether you're designing something, you're really into your

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