Lifestyle Gamification - The Six Step Process to Playing the Game of Your Life

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Lifestyle gamification is the idea of taking your life and treating it more like a game. It's about applying some of the things that makes games so fun into your real life. There are two main areas where this can be applied: in work, or in lifestyle. And we have a six step process to plan out how to play the game of your life. The first step is picking your game. Step two is to understand your attributes slash talents. Step three is picking a role in the game you're playing. Step four is identifying the skills you need to learn to become the strongest player on your server. Step five is building alliances,. people having the same playing the same game,

Yu-kai Chou is an Author and International Keynote Speaker on Gamification and Behavioral Design. He is the Founding Partner and Chief Creation Officer of the premium consulting/design firm The Octalysis Group, as well as the Original Creator of the Octalysis Framework, and the author of Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards.

We talked about why games are often more engaging than real life, The Octalysis Framework-Yu-Kai’s most substantial life work that breaks down all human motivation into eight core drives, why traditional schooling so boring, how to gamify your real life, flow theory as it relates to the Octaylsis, and Octalysis Prime-Yu-Kai’s online gamified learning platform.

Yu-Kai Chou Blog: https://yukaichou.com/

Octalysis Prime: https://island.octalysisprime.com/#!/

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