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Playing Games with Your Career
This document discusses viewing one's career or work as a game to be played. It suggests adopting a playful mindset and explores concepts like player types, goals, and choosing how to play the game. The document provides tips on developing curiosity, self-awareness, critical thinking skills, and autonomy to help one approach their career in a more engaged and self-directed manner. Overall, it promotes finding joy and passion in one's work to make the job feel more like a fun game being played.
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- 1. PLAYING GAMES WITH YOUR CAREER STEPHENP. ANDERSON
- 2. JUST FOR FUN: Listas many words as you can answering the question: “Why do people love/leave a job?” Only use words that start with the letter “P” Pay Projects etc.
- 3. STEPHEN P. ANDERSON poetpainter.com I help businesses with @stephenanderson ‘Product Strategy & Design’ needs
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- 6. My Book! How to“get to first base” with our users. The book is divided into four sections: • AESTHETICS, BEAUTY, AND BEHAVIOR • PLAYFUL SEDUCTION • THE SUBTLE ART OF SEDUCTION • THE DATING GAME
- 7. I know itis not the usual type of talk that you do, but… Brian Sullivan
- 20. explore new ideasand skills... make lots of use worlds of different things based on activities fantasy to inspire and objects already familiar a vital part of the creative process is to ʻmakeʼ something learn how things are made try out your own ideas learn from our failures experiment express creativity by drawing pictures, writing stories… play on their own... or with a group of real friends inspiration for creativity comes from many different sources look outside your own experience versions of everyday things allow children to create their own worlds
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- 28. ASSUMPTIONS: 1. Job vsCareer
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- 30. ASSUMPTIONS: 1. Job vsCareer 2. Creative services
- 31. ASSUMPTIONS: 1. Job vsCareer 2. Creative services 3. Do something you love
- 32. WORK AS PLAY PLAYERTYPES PLAYERS WORLDS GOALS CHOOSING TOPLAY
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- 36. Once the basicskills have been mastered, designers can use their imaginations to explore and create their own masterpieces.
- 38. The more thingsdesigners know about, the more they can use them in creative thinking and play
- 39. Gain experience inas many specialties as possible to round out your understanding of the moving parts… Justin Talerico co-founder Ion Interactive http://www.commarts.com/insights/moving-upstream.html
- 41. The fewer materialsand choices available, the more imagination is needed by the maker.
- 43. What p erson would you like to be like in your c areer? How would the y do your job?
- 45. Do you thinkyou ever grow out of imaginary play?
- 46. Google’s founders LarryPage and Sergei Brin Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales Julia Child rapper Sean “P.Diddy” Combs videogame pioneer Will Wright
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- 48. the Montessori educational approachmight be the surest route to joining the creative elite http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-mafia/
- 49. A number ofthe innovative entrepreneurs also went to Montessori schools, where they learned to follow their curiosity http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-mafia/
- 50. Similarly, Amazon’s culturebreathes experimentation and discovery. !Mr. Bezos often compares Amazon’s strategy of developing ideas in new markets to “planting seeds” or “going down blind alleys.” ! Amazon’s executives learn and uncover opportunities as they go. !Many efforts turn out to be dead ends, Mr. Bezos has said, “But every once in a while, you go down an alley and it opens up into this huge, broad avenue.” http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-mafia/
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- 52. most highly creativeachievers don’t begin with brilliant ideas, they discover them. http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-mafia/
- 53. Montessori taught methe joy of discovery… It’s all about learning on your terms, rather than a teacher explaining stuff to you. SimCity comes right out of Montessori… videogame pioneer Will Wright http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-mafia/
- 54. We both wentto Montessori school, and I think it was part of that training of not following rules and orders, and being self-motivated, questioning what’s going on in the world, doing things a little bit differently. Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin
- 55. I’ve always feltthat there’s a certain kind of important pioneering that goes on from an inventor like Thomas Edison Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
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- 58. What are you excited and curi ous about?
- 59. making things fun” -VS- “finding the joy”
- 60. Find th ejoy in every project
- 65. How does work becomeplay? Most importantly, find the thing that ignites your passion. When you tap into that energy, work becomes play and you enjoy every minute of it. Once you’re in that mode, you’re destined to do great things. Justin Talerico co-founder Ion Interactive http://www.commarts.com/insights/moving-upstream.html
- 66. WORK AS PLAY PLAYERTYPES PLAYERS WORLDS GOALS CHOOSING TO PLAY THE GAMEPLAN
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- 68. What ki ndsof games do you most enjoy?
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- 70. When haveyou been happies t? List 5-10 moments.
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- 72. When haveyou been happies t? List 5-10 moments. What kind s of work excite you most? (Not anything spec ific, but rather the underlying nature of the activity)
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- 74. What excites youmost: Technology, People, or Design? http://www.poetpainter.com/thoughts/article/developing-a-career-growth-plan-at-geniant
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- 76. Disciplined? Passionate?
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- 78. SECRET KEY #2 Se lf - Awareness
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- 87. N o ,th e g r a s s is n o t g r e e n e r There are always tradeoffs
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- 89. When I playpool, I tend to overthink the angles to make a shot. I've found that if I scan the table, see where I want it to go, then shoot, I get much better results. –Jay Morgan http://www.flickr.com/photos/pichead/
- 90. Where Will YouBe in Five Years?
- 91. Where woul d you like to be in f ive years? ompany? be d oing? With what c What would you like to
- 92. You win thelotto. What do you want to do now?
- 93. If you knew you would not fail, what would you try?
- 94. You’r e laidoff. You hav e 3 months severance and no job prospects. What d o you do?
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- 99. D o nʼt c o n fu s e g e tt in g s tu ff d o n e w it h m a k in g p r o g r e s s .
- 101. Itʼs ok ayto make things up a s y o u g o a lo n g
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- 105. For the lastfive-some years, I’ve given up making New Year’s Resolutions. Instead I have what I call the New Year’s Project. Each year I pick a large topic, and spend my time on and off throughout the year teaching myself about it. http://www.eleganthack.com/?p=2809 Christina Wodtke Practical Tip!
- 106. What do w ant learn about? Who knows all about that? Go m eet them. Practical Tip!
- 107. 1. To developthe expertise, reputation, influence, and means to create (and bring to market) product or service experiences that dramatically improve peoples' lives. 2. To inspire and share the means by which organizations can create better customer experiences.
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- 117. Everyth ing isa transaction (except for sacrificial love)
- 118. What is it that the other pla yers want? What motivates them?
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- 120. WORK AS PLAY PLAYERTYPES PLAYERS WORLDS GOALS CHOOSING TO PLAY THE GAMEPLAN
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- 123. Fact: You are alreadyplaying in a game. Is it your game or someone else’s?
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- 125. SECRET KEY #4 Autonomy
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- 129. WHAT DO YOU LOVE DOING? FIGURE OUT HOW TO PRACTICE SELL IT AND LEARN! WHAT ARE LEARN TO WHAT ARE YOU REALLY SAY NO PEOPLE GOOD AT? BUYING? with some credit to Bud Caddel (whatconsumesme.com) and Jim Collins Good to Great.
- 130. 4 SECRET KEYS Curiosity Self -Awareness Critical Thinking Skills Au tonomy
- 131. BIG Wa rning: My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation –Robert Frost
- 132. BIG Wa rning: My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation –Robert Frost If you end up doing what you love for a living, a work-life balance & work-life boundaries are very difficult to establish.
- 133. Wo r kto li v e . B u t d o n ʼt li v e to w o r k .
- 134. The "best" investmentyou can make isn't gold. It's the people you love, the dreams you have, and living a life that matters. Umair Haque http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2011/06/the_best_investment_you_can_ma.html
- 135. “...you find thefun, and snap! The job’s a game.”
- 136. Go P lay! slideshare.net/stephenpa getmentalnotes.com Stephen P Anderson . @stephenanderson www.poetpainter.com