Aaron Dignan: How to Use Games to Excel at Life and Work

About this presentation
Play is nature's learning engine, says games researcher and author Aaron Dignan. In other words, we're hardwired to enjoy games - they're addictive, skill-building, and satisfying. So the question is: How can we integrate game concepts into our work lives to help us push ideas forward? In this talk, Dignan walks us through the principles of creating a great game and suggests ways that we might use them to overcome email exhaustion, spice up workaday meetings, and more.
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0:23 apply and rethink the meaning of "play" in other places
0:33 most people are bored
1:54 barriers to making ideas happen
2:30 lack of volition and lack of faculty
4:31 how do i get that face to show up in other places
5:45 real life is not actually satisfying. but games are almost always satisfying
6:28 play is natures' learning engine
7:43 games activate our seeking circuity
10:12 games create a state of flow
13:31 games give us a chance to grow our skill
15:18 real life is full of unstructured experiences
16:30 beautiful balance between structure and freedom in games
17:01 how you blend structure, freedom and creativity
18:37 what can be a game?
19:06 if the activity can be learned, if the player can be measured, feedback can be delivered in a timely manner
20:54 if you answer yes, you've got something that can be a game
21:03 the game frame: the raw pieces of experience that matter in a game
21:50 skill cycle
23:06 the element of resistance, risk and uncertainty at the core
24:08 emails/meetings
About Aaron Dignan
Aaron Dignan dressed up like a superhero for 180 straight days of the first grade, which marked the beginning of his life as an iconoclast, observer, theorist, and performer. Now, as a founding partner of the digital strategy firm Undercurrent and based in New York, he advises global brands and complex organizations like GE, PepsiCo, Ford, and Estée Lauder on their future in an increasingly technophilic world. Aaron's first book, Game Frame: Using Games as a Strategy for Success, was released on March 8th, 2011.
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[@stadler72]

This is a brilliant application of storytelling to culture.

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[@karlteai3699]

Interesting topic but my god boring tone and voice that makes me want to sleep to death !!