Get the Most in Life and Work with Gamification

Game designer Jane McGonigal was desperately striving to get her normal life back. This might have lasted forever if not for a magic potion she “cooked up” on her own – a resilience-building game. Today, SuperBetter has been played by more than half a million people

What is lifestyle gamification?

Gamification means that you turn a task into a game to motivate yourself to finish it

• In other words, you apply the fun and addictive elements developed by game designers to real-world activities
• For example, learning a foreign language through an app like MindSnacks or DuoLingo

Why and how does it work?

As you get points and other rewards, achieve new levels with new challenges, see your name on a scoreboard, and explore new quests, your brain becomes excited and releases dopamine in the mesolimbic pathway (the reward pathway – highlighted in dark blue), which creates higher motivation and makes us chase after a reward.

• Factors that make games and gamified tasks incredibly attractive include: Epic meaning and calling, development and accomplishment, empowerment of creativity and feedback, ownership and possession, social influence and relatedness or envy, and scarcity and impatience.

How can a business benefit from gamification?

Up to a 40% improvement in employees’ learning productivity, new customers, easier and fun ways of growing leaders are just a few possible outcomes of gamification.

• The ways a business may use gamification vary depending on the type and size of the company
• Smaller startups may be interested in product gamification
• So-called marketing gamification typically attracts mid-size companies
• Gamified experiences are developed for potential new clients or to increase loyalty among existing clients

Become the game master of your life

Have you ever felt that whatever hard you try, you can’t get closer to your personal goals?

• A gamifying life goals approach can give you a few ways to turn even the most boring things in your life into a game

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Gamify your life without special apps

Attach rewards to your to do list

• Use surprise rewards
• Engage in time-based challenges
• Set a time limit
• Make a deal with your friend
• Add a social accountability aspect
• Share a list of tasks to do and reward yourself for completing them

Top-10 Gamified Personal Productivity RPG Apps

Do It Now (RPG To Do List)

• Habitica/HabitRPG
• MindSnacks
• Fitocracy
• SuperBetter
• Approach RPG-style challenges
• LifeRPG-style missions
• Productivity Challenge Timer

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