Crossroads of Fantasy and Reality
From books, gaming, and hobbies, there are many ways to find fantasy in our lives
Refusal of the Call - Why Do We Reject Our Dreams?
Why do you give up on your dreams? We get an exciting idea but find excuses instead of pursuing it. Why do you turn your back on your passions, and what happens if you give up on your dreams for good? Using Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, this Refusal of the Call is an important step in our journey to a life of adventure, as we face our fears, and become the heroes that we are meant to be.
How to Be a Time Wizard - Part One - Can We Change Our Perception of Time?
Ever had one of those days that just dragged on and felt like forever. Wouldn’t it be great to be like Dr. Strange and manipulate time? We could speed up all those boring days. But while we can’t change time itself, we can change our perception of how fast it’s moving. Without any magic needed, here are 8 tips on how to make time go faster at work or at school, and rush through all boredom.
Game Skill Trees in Real Life
Many games let players personalize their character’s development through a game skill tree. Different combinations allow for a great variety in gameplay and player engagement. What are different player types on RPG skill trees? What about real-life skill trees? How to manage our goals through levels of experience and how we can create our own skill tree for real life?
Why Is It So Hard to Follow Our Dreams?
We have big ideas and dreams. We imagine how much better our lives will be. But for all our daydreaming, many of us never get started. What are the reasons we don’t follow our dreams? We need to understand what’s behind the excuses we tell ourselves. It takes courage to follow your dreams and we must face some difficult truths. But knowing how to overcome fear and pursue your dreams, you can finally live the life you imagine.
The Science Behind Gamification and Why It’s a Powerful Tool for Mental Health
“Life is a game.” Gamification is a powerful tool to motivate us by making tasks more fun and enjoyable. Companies have used it for over 100 years to encourage us to buy their products and schools have found great success gamifying education. But what is the science behind gamification and how does it work?
Real Life RPG – 25 Real Life Quests for Nerds, Geeks, Gamers, and Would-Be Adventurers
Quests in games provide goals, help us progress our story, and develop our character. What if we could do earn experience points and complete quests in real life? There are plenty of real quests that we can take to improve our stats and have some fun along the way.
Here is a list of 25 real-life quests for nerds, geeks, gamers, and would-be adventurers to get you started on your adventure.
Is Life an RPG? Why We Should Treat Life Like a Roleplaying Game
Whether video games or tabletop games, we enjoy the immersion, interesting questlines, and magical creatures of role-playing games. But next to it, our reality may feel anything but an adventure. Boring responsibilities, difficult challenges, and some days life is anything but fun.
But what if we thought about real life as an RPG? While it may seem like a novel idea, changing our mindset and thinking about life as a game can produce real benefits to our lives.
How to Add More Adventure To Your Life
We spend our lives wishing for adventure. But those wishes are in sharp contrast to our everyday lives of routine and often full of mundane tasks. But what if real-life adventures are possible and available to you right now? What's your ideal life of adventure and what's holding you back?
Bigger Is Better
I’ve fallen in love with bigger RPG projects, and I think you should to. They’re very rewarding and much easier to achieve than you might think.
10 Roleplaying Gamification Apps to Add Some Adventure to Your Day-To-Day
Our day-to-day can feel like a never-ending list of chores where it’s a struggle to be motivated and productive. But tying those boring tasks to a role-playing game can make it a lot more enjoyable. Here are 10 of the best RPG gamification apps for adding some adventure to your tasks.
Create a New Character, Create Your New Career
Figuring out a new career path is difficult but building a role-playing character sheet isn’t. What if we could make one for ourselves, a real-life character sheet, and applied it to our careers? Can you define your alignment and personal proficiencies and skills? What about D&D stats for real-life, like dexterity and charisma and could they be used to find your dream job? Try this character sheet to see it can make your career path a little more fun.
Real-Life Questing
We may not have dragons to slay and princesses to rescue in real life, but there are plenty of quests that we can take to improve our stats and be more successful.
Crossroads - Knowing You are on the Right Path
Every day, we face a crossroads of how we will spend our future and if we will follow our dreams. But how to know you are on the right path? It isn’t always easy. Here is an analogy of the journey and choosing the right path. What are the signs of being on the wrong path? And how to choose the right path in life and follow our dreams?
Reloading Your Starting Character (Remembering Who You Used to Be)
Once the best, max-level gamers were once low-level newbies themselves. The making of greatness starts in humble beginnings. When searching for authenticity and meaning, look to your beginnings. Start finding your purpose by looking at your past. Here are some questions to search those childhood memories, so that you can work on remembering who you are by remembering who you used to be.
The Call to Adventure
Self-discovery as the hero’s journey. Heroes in stories go on great adventures and return home heroic. We can take the steps that Joseph Campbell described in the Hero's Journey in our own search for purpose. It is not an easy journey, but no great adventure ever was. Starting with the Call to Adventure, we pack our bags and set forth on an adventure of authenticity to become our own hero.
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