Why do we need to refresh our brain? Because...Even if you are the most creative person on the earth (which you might not), sitting in the office and facing your computer all day can still kill your brain cells (oh no!) and make you unproductive.
so....Let's learn some fun ways to save your entrepreneurial brain.
During Agile Australia 2010, I teamed up with Phil Abernathy to present a variety of different team exercises and games. The session starts quite gently and builds up pace culminating in the Ball Point Game right at the very end.
During Agile Australia 2010, I teamed up with Phil Abernathy to present a variety of different team exercises and games. The session starts quite gently and builds up pace culminating in the Ball Point Game right at the very end.
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With all of that focus on our physical bodies, we tend to forget the most important muscle of them all: our brains! Yes, you can give your brain a workout, and it has several benefits, including improved memory and cognitive functions.
Play at Work: Releasing Human Potential Through PlayPortia Tung
Are you frustrated by an unhappy and cynical workforce? Do you feel swamped by poor quality deliverables that no one wants? Do you dream of doing more of what you love and enabling others to do the same?
If your answer is "Yes…" to one or more of these questions, then it's time to act swiftly before unfulfilling daily work gobbles up the last bit of play potential in you and your colleagues and stymies forever your chances of doing valuable work in a meaningful way.
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Innovation games work and are a great addition to your UX tool-kit. They save time, help to build better products, can help difficult teams to collaborate and generally are more fun. But introducing these games to an unreceptive or even receptive organisation can be a challenge. Knowing which games to use and when to use them, getting stakeholder and team member buy-in, and bringing games out of product definition workshops and in to everyday/weekly meetings can feel like an uphill battle.
In this collaborative session we'll explore ways to overcome these hurdles. We'll look at strategies to get comfortable with playing games as well as ways to get your entire organisation to embrace them.
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In this essay I describe the basic philosophy of my consultancy and design practices in education: Play is not about fun, it's evolutionary purpose is to increase the tacit understanding of the complexities in the real world. It supercharges the understanding of relationships between different components in our world.
“The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light, motion, gravity, muscular force; and in the game of human life, love, fear, justice, appetite and man... interact.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a dry and probably boring work but I lay down some the scientific principles for game-based learning I've developed as a designer. I introduce why a lot of the currently popular gamification attempts for education are psydoscientific and give out principles backed up by scientific research on how to develop cognitive skills with games and their pedagogy.
A lot of the popular engagement techniques in gamification for education are based on techniques developed by casual game companies like Zynga. This is fundamentally a flawed approach filled with psudoscientific claims by the "gamification gurus."
This work bases it's design principles on scientific research on games with origins outside the virtual-world like chess and the process grandmasters have to go through to achieve world-class performance. It's disregards the popular techniques that claim they'll fix education by discovering how Farmville got people to water virtual crops.
This talk revolves around my personal journey in trying to resolve some of my own issues with depression by applying techniques I learned during my career as a game designer.
I found that a lot of the emotional and mental issues we experience in our modern society are caused by our badly designed day-to-day lifestyles which are putting us in a constant negative reward loop.
I believe a society suffering from obesity and depression is a clear indication that it has lost it's a sense of balance. And the reason we are unable to understand how to fix it's because we have accidentally created a simulation of life that's not connected to our biological instincts.
We have basically written a social game that we can't win because we never understood it rules.
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Innovation games work and are a great addition to your UX tool-kit. They save time, help to build better products, can help difficult teams to collaborate and generally are more fun. But introducing these games to an unreceptive or even receptive organisation can be a challenge. Knowing which games to use and when to use them, getting stakeholder and team member buy-in, and bringing games out of product definition workshops and in to everyday/weekly meetings can feel like an uphill battle.
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In this essay I describe the basic philosophy of my consultancy and design practices in education: Play is not about fun, it's evolutionary purpose is to increase the tacit understanding of the complexities in the real world. It supercharges the understanding of relationships between different components in our world.
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I found that a lot of the emotional and mental issues we experience in our modern society are caused by our badly designed day-to-day lifestyles which are putting us in a constant negative reward loop.
I believe a society suffering from obesity and depression is a clear indication that it has lost it's a sense of balance. And the reason we are unable to understand how to fix it's because we have accidentally created a simulation of life that's not connected to our biological instincts.
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3. Even if you are the most creative
person on the earth (which you might
not), sitting in the office and facing
your computer all day can still
kill your brain cells (oh no!)
and make you unproductive.
so....
Let's learn some fun ways to save your
entrepreneurial brain.
Because...
5. When you overuse your brain power,
sleeping can only help a little bit.
What you need is to
change a type of brain
activity to refresh your
thinking.
So...
Try Sudoku