What Are the Core Drives on the Octagon Shape?

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Everything we do in life is based on one or more of these acor drives. And it's also graphed on the octagon shape for reason. The top side, we call them white hat motivation core drives. If you're always doing something just to avoid a loss, that's an acor drive. Black hat motivation makes people feel urgent, obsessed, sometimes even addicted. But in the long run, it leaves a bad taste in their mouths.

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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