The Harmless Dragon: Why You Can’t Actually Lose by Reaching Out
There is a terrifying, fire-breathing dragon that lives just outside the edge of your comfort zone. You’ve never…
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Lifestyle Gamification
Articles on Lifestyle Gamification — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
Career Unhappiness Diagnostic: Did YOU Change or the WORK?
If you used to love your work and now you don't, there are only two root causes: YOU…
Content NPC or Victim NPC: Which Kind of Stuck Are You?
Two people are both stuck in jobs they hate. One of them shrugs, goes home at 5 PM,…
What Actually Transfers When You Pivot Careers?
Most career pivot advice maps surface skills. The real continuity lives at the identity-pattern layer. Here's the three-question…
Should You Quit Your Job to Follow Your Passion? (5-Step Framework)
Should you quit your job to follow your passion? Most career-transition advice frames this as a courage problem…
Gene Resilience: Why Your Ethnicity Changes the Health Rulebook
This is Part 2 of a data analysis covering 159 countries and 7,853 individual Americans. Part 1 showed…
Real Life Game Skill (Warlock): The Lich Pact — How I Slept 3.5 Hours a Day for 2 Years and What It Cost Me
In 2011, my CTO Stephen Johnson had been stuck on a database architecture problem all day. The rest…
How Yu-kai Chou pioneered Gamification in 2003 and became a World Leading Authority on Gamification
Before “gamification” was a word anyone used in business, Yu-kai Chou was already building companies around it. Starting…
Turning Life Into a Game: Lessons from Yu-kai Chou and the Octalysis Framework
A cleaner breakdown of Yu-kai Chou’s view on turning life into a game, using Octalysis to redesign motivation,…