Game of Life
What are things that everyone needs to learn, but don't get taught?
Games are designed to frustrate players, forcing them to adapt by learning new systems and rules, which builds transferable skills for the real world. For information to be valuable it needs to be understandable and actionable. Game provide a system to explore your own learning curve at a rate the maintains a flow state.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players, they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.
Context
Journey
Playing games builds confidence you can adapt to challenging situations. How would you make a game that helps with experiencing taking one-way decisions?
Everyone is living their own version of The Heroes Journey story arc.
- Search for Meaning
- Manage Time and Energy
- Learn independently
- Learn to make friends
- Build a trusted network
- Understand enemies
- Evolve exercise routines
- Establish healthy sleep habits
- Match diet to your body chemistry
- Find Identity through Art/Dance/Food/Music/Sport
- Develop your Personal Brand
- Navigate Sexual Relationships Safely
- Navigate Drugs and Alcohol Safely
- Earn a Living
- Manage your Money
- Buy a home
- Voting
- Experience Travel
- Lead a Community
- Finding a Life Partner
- Gain equity in a business/protocol
- Raise a family
- Invest in Property
- Invest in People
- Switch careers
- Decide how to retire
- The endgame
Find replicable methods that remove friction to add value.