FD Lifestyle Presentation at Google
Editor’s Note: The original SlideShare presentation embed is no longer available. See the updated 10,000 Hours of Play post for the full presentation.
Author Credibility: Yu-kai Chou
Yu-kai Chou created the Octalysis Framework after studying gamification since 2003 — years before the term entered mainstream vocabulary. As a Human-Systems Architect & Behavioral Designer, his framework has been applied by LEGO, Microsoft, Porsche, Coca-Cola, Salesforce, and MrBeast, impacting over 1.5 Billion Users.
Chou has taught the Octalysis methodology at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Tesla, Google, BCG, and IDEO.
His work has been cited by Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Wired, US Department of Energy, NIST, NSF, NCBI, US Department of Education, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Google Scholar — with 3,700+ more academic publications. Explore his books here.
The Presentation
(This was follow up video of my first ever speech at Google and the origins of my “10,000 Hours of Play” 6-Steps Journey. You can see the most updated post here).
Today I was invited to Google to make a speech about The FD Lifestyle: Powering up in the Game of Life. The crowd was a group of Googlers, Facebookers, Yahooers and Cisco folks who regularly gather and invite speakers. This event is a perfect example of Core Drive 5: Social Influence & Relatedness — people motivated by community, tribe, and shared purpose driving real-world behavior.
The speech went awesome. Some people tried to destroy my arguments during the Q&A session by challenging some of the logic and scenarios I presented, but fortunately I was able to answer them all.
I actually think my Q&A session turned out to be more impressive than my actual presentation.
A lot of people came up and chatted with me afterwards, and I really look forward to hanging out with them more! These are some great people who have already been leveling up their entire lives. The FD Lifestyle concept maps directly onto the principles of gamification — applying game mechanics to real-life motivation and personal growth.
The slideshow above is the powerpoint I used for my presentation. Most of it is pictures, but I will soon upload a video version of my presentation!
Now that is out of the way, I just have to prepare for the Web 2.0 Expo in SF and the Keynote Speech I have at USC next week! Understanding Core Drive 1: Epic Meaning & Calling is central to the FD Lifestyle philosophy — the idea that we are all heroes in a larger narrative.
Hope you all had an extraordinary weekend and that you will be successful in every activity you engage in!