up:: [[How can we gamify our lives to enter flow more consistently]] Tags:: #🌱 # We can gamify our life to enter flow more consistently by creating clearer completable goals and rules The second element of flow in ACTIONS is C for Clarity; create clear completable goals and rules. Games foster this because, by definition, they must have clear hierarchies of goal(s) that are non-trivial and achievable. This allows the players to align their goals with the games, bringing order to consciousness. That’s not you. The fact that you have made it this far in the video means you want to be a hero. The hero never, stagnates. Like me you probably value living autonomously, building your own thing, literally breaking free from the Matrix. This doesn’t mean your goals and rules can’t be aligned with traditional societal paths like becoming a doctor or lawyer. It means you have to do so **autonomously** rather than because it’s the default path. So this is what you should do: lock yourself in your room, fast for 14 days, and see what inspiring revelations come up. That's what the Budda did, but under a tree. In all seriousness, the best way to do this is to do some serious [[Journaling]] and reflection. This is because journaling allows you to uncover your values, emotional and thinking tendencies, and how certain activities and people make you feel. Then, you can use this knowledge to [[Lifestyle Design MOC|design the best life for you]] by coming up with epic goals and rules to live by and creating a life that allows you to exemplify those goals and rules. By rules, I mean the values and virtues you show in your daily activities. For example, my values and hence rules for myself right now are: - Rethinking - Curiosity - Passion - Humor - Friendship And my virtues are: - Patience - Integrity - Temperance - Honor - Humility I explain how I did this myself in the third part of my three-part series of [[How I Gamified My Life To Enjoy Learning and Studying Part 3]]. I went through the journaling exercises in Yu-Kai Chou's 10,000 hours of play article to literally make my life into a game by uncovering the things mentioned before. Through creating these goals and rules, you give yourself a foundation to structure your attention around. But coming up with goals and rules isn't enough. Without clarity on how to pursue these goals, you will never make progress. This is why games have a hierarchy of explicit or implicit subgoals to work towards, like collecting acorns in Animal Crossing, building libraries in Civ 6, or collecting all of the secret rubber ducks in some platformer. In real life, we can do the same by creating specific and actionable subgoals as extensions of our high-order epic goals. For example, I broke down my epic goal of one day creating an online live cohort course around helping people leverage the power of gamification to make their real lives more enjoyable. YouTube videos, blog posts like this one, and further down into doing research by reading a specific book, article, or podcast, and inside of that, reading a specific chapter. This level of specificity gives me immense clarity on how to structure my attention while pursuing my goals, facilitating flow. Related: