For yourself, for your family, for society, and for the world. I like what Jordan B Peterson says about driving toward a better life. I do Reading Partners in Minneapolis, MN. The real test of if something is primarily driven by CD1 is if you would incorporate an activity into your life (for a larger purpose) WITHOUT recognition from friends or prompting from others. Volunteer groups deliberately incorporate CD2 and CD5 to make volunteering more enjoyable. What other drives are present when you partake in volunteer and charity work? Usually CD1 is not the only drive present (CD5 is a common). This sharing of your time and exercise of compassion and process of giving helps another individual or your community or even society (something bigger than yourself). Whenever you feel the urge to help others without expectation of return, that is, to GIVE, you are embracing compassion and giving. It’s easy to understand how volunteer work and charity often derive from Core Drive 1: Epic Meaning & Calling. An obvious starter example: Volunteer and Charity
What’s more, Core Drive 1: Epic Meaning & Calling is White Hat and can produce long-lasting reward loops. How are you organizing your lifestyle to account for something beyond just yourself? You’ve probably done something bigger than yourself on multiple occasions.Īll we’re doing now is approaching lifestyle with the same mentality. So how can this be applied to lifestyle gamification? Let’s take just the first line…Įpic Meaning and Calling is the need or the urge to be a part of something much bigger than just yourself. When this drive is activated, participants choose to be members of your system and will take action not because it necessarily benefits them directly, but because it turns them into the heroes of the company’s story. Here’s a short definition of Core Drive 1 from Yu-kai’s “Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards”Įpic Meaning and Calling is the need or the urge to be a part of something much bigger than just yourself. How Core Drive 1: Epic Meaning & Calling effects your lifestyle Ready to get started with Core Drive 1: Epic Meaning & Calling? In this series, I’ll take each of the Core Drives one at a time to give you a detailed look at how each contributes to lifestyle and how you can apply more or less of each into your lifestyle design to improve your life satisfaction. If none of the drives are present, there is no behavior. In Yu-kai’s Octalysis framework, there are 8 Core Drives (and one hidden Core Drive) to behavior. How well you execute or live within the framework and models you’ve constructed (whether internally or externally) give you some experience on the spectrum from suffering to satisfaction. But creating a life is what we are all doing and aim to do each moment of our day. Why do we want to move towards something better? Or away from something worse? Because we want what’s best for our life. This contrasts function-focused design (this chair is for sitting, nothing else).īecause human motivation is complex and complicated, we need to account for the various drives that play into it. Yu-kai likes to call this human-focused design (not to be confused with IDEO’s human-centered design). Throw in a bit of behavioral science, motivation, and design and you have a working definition of gamification. Gamification, depending on how you define it, is essentially positive psychology combined with game design. If you’re a parent helping your child with homework, you’re helping your son or daughter be the best they can be because you believe in education to change their life.
Yes, gamification can be used to improve your lifestyle.
#Epic meaning series#
This series is written by Erik van Mechelen, based on the Octalysis framework by Yu-kai Chou.
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