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Level Up as If You Were in a Video Game 🎮

2024-07-09 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:46 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis

In a Short, Ali contrasts two ways to level up in video games, grinding the same monster or following quests, side quests and curiosity, and says curious players enjoy the process far more; he asks what that version of levelling up looks like in work and life.

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00:00:00 — Grinding versus quests and curiosity: levelling up in games and in life

  • ★★ Ali notes that nobody says they need discipline to play a video game, and asks what makes video games so fun and addictive. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali describes two ways to level up in video games: grinding by killing the same monster again and again, or following the storyline with quests, side quests and curiosity, earning XP for discovering new areas. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Players who level up in video games through curiosity also level up, Ali says, but enjoy the process a lot more. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Ali applies the video-game idea to real life, asking what the quest, side-quest and curiosity version of levelling up looks like in the storyline of our work and lives. — 00:00:29

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