Live by playing. How gamification of life helps to quickly achieve goals

If your life is like Groundhog Day, and your home and office routine is crazy, gamification is what you need. You have to overcome increasingly difficult obstacles, playfully master new skills and participate in exciting adventures. Intrigued? Then go ahead!

1. Compete with those who are better than you

We usually compete with those who are similar to us. Even Darwin said that all forms of life compete with those closest to them. At first glance, it makes no sense for a backyard soccer player to compete with Ronaldo, and for a tiny town small business owner to compete with Bill Gates. However, Darwin’s laws do not work for those who dream of rapid growth and a vibrant life, and here’s why.

• Competing with equal or weaker ones, you slow down your development

Josh Waitzkin, chess player and author of The Art of Learning. How to become the best in any business,” he recalled how he mastered the art of tai chi in a group of experienced masters. Time after time he lost the fight, but as a result he acquired and improved the necessary skills much faster than those who trained among beginners. He called this phenomenon “an investment in failure.” By doing things together with those who have much more experience, we imitate them and adapt to them.

• The best fight only with themselves

Dave Logan and co-authors of The Leader and the Tribe. 5 levels of corporate culture found that most of the “organizational cultures” developed due to competition. They distinguish different levels of competition, the highest of which is competition with oneself. At this level, specialists reach such a high degree of mastery that there is only one guideline – their own results.

2. Find multiple mentors for different areas of your life

If you decide to write a book, seek the advice of someone who has already written and published one, or preferably several books. He will tell you both about the organization of the process of working on a book, and about the intricacies of communicating with publishers. In two or three meetings, you will gain the experience that your mentor has accumulated over many months or even years.

3. Prioritize and set time to complete tasks

When formulating life goals, do not try to get everything at once. Our life is a system, and by improving one area, you improve the whole system. When setting a task, clearly define the time and stages of its implementation.

Let’s say you consider yourself a bad parent. Think about how to fix the situation. One of the tasks on the way to the goal is not to forget to praise the children. Give yourself 30 days to give your son or daughter sincere compliments every day.

4. Teach Others What You Learn

Consider what you can teach others. As a result, you will gain new experience and accelerate your own learning. Students who earn extra money by tutoring learn the material faster and apply it more effectively. The so-called “protégé effect” is triggered.

5. Change your life every few years

In video games, each new level is different from the previous one. The hero finds himself in a new world with new obstacles, restrictions and challenges. Everything is the same in life. External changes are the best stimulus for personal change. Changes are different. One large family took on the upbringing of five children. A few years later, they adopted four more. Parents are sure that family life has changed radically, but it was useful both for themselves and for their own children.

Enjoy the game called “life”, move from level to level. The higher you climb, the more magical, difficult and interesting it becomes.