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    Gameful Isolation: Gameful Life, #3
    Gameful Isolation: Gameful Life, #3
    Gameful Isolation: Gameful Life, #3
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    Gameful Isolation: Gameful Life, #3

    By Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

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    We all had plans for the year 2020. Some of us planned to travel, others to make bold career moves. None of us expected the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing, or the lockdown of many countries worldwide.

    But they happened.

     

    Most of us are staying at home and trying to make the best of it. Many show compassion and camaraderie in these troubled times. Wanting to contribute something of her own, Victoria created the book and video series Gameful Isolation.
    In this little book, Victoria shares Self-Gamification, the method she devised that unites anthropology, kaizen, and gamification to form a novel, gameful approach to life. She shares many personal anecdotes of using this universal tool to master the challenges we all face during these times of crisis. 
    By reading this book, you will learn:

    • The reasons for turning our lives into games, especially now during the COVID-19 pandemic;
    • About the three approaches that make up Self-Gamification;
    • How to play the "Anthropology of Now" Role-Playing Game;
    • About procrastination and the brain's fight-or-flight response;
    • How to bypass upsets one small step at a time, and why it works;
    • How to use fun as a compass, and games and play as inspiration;
    • How to be both the designer and the player of your self-motivational games;
    • The role of feedback systems and rewards in Self-Gamification;
    • About Self-Gamification gameplay loops, and more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVictoria Ichizli-Bartels
    Release dateApr 23, 2020
    ISBN9781393404699
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      Book preview

      Gameful Isolation - Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

      Gameful Isolation

      Making the Best of a Crisis,

      the Self-Gamification Way

      Book 3

      in Series Gameful Life

      Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

      Gameful Isolation

      Making the Best of a Crisis, the Self-Gamification Way

      Book 3 in Series Gameful Life

      1st Edition

      Copyright © 2020 Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

      The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      All rights reserved.

      This book and the content provided herein are based on the author's opinion and personal experiences and observations. Every effort has been made to ensure that the content provided in this book is accurate and helpful. However, the author of this book does not dispense any legal or medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for physical and emotional well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author (who is also the publisher) assumes no responsibility for your actions. Please consult competent counsel to identify the most appropriate treatments and approaches for your health and well-being and to ensure your use of this material conforms with all applicable laws and regulations.

      The author reserves the right to make any changes she deems necessary to future versions of the publication to ensure its accuracy.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the author.

      Cover design by Alice Jago

      All trademarks and brands mentioned in this book are for clarifying and reference purposes only. Rather than putting a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, the names are used in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, and where the author (and publisher) was aware of that claim, they have been capitalized. The trademarks and brands are proprietary to their owners and are not affiliated with this document in any way.

      The sources to the quotations made in the book are given before, after, or in the same places as the quotes in the text.

      To the first ever game designers and players,

      Thank you for creating a magical environment and the tools for us to learn, grow, motivate ourselves, become stronger, more resilient and courageous, and to enjoy life regardless of the circumstances.

      "You can’t control the wind, but you can control the sail."

      — Charles M. Carroll and John David Mann, The Recipe

      A Free Video Book

      Gameful Isolation is Book 3 in the Gameful Life series. It is also the first writing project I have turned into a video series, or you could say, a video book on YouTube. Here is the link to the first video (chapter), which leads to all the others in the playlist: https://bit.ly/2ytezac.

      1. Introduction

      I started writing this little book on March 30th, 2020. It was a couple of weeks after lockdown had started in Denmark, and it was two weeks until Easter Monday, April 13th — the provisional date for lockdown to end.

      [An update during the revision of this book: I can now tell you that Denmark started re-opening slowly on April 15th, two days after Easter Monday. The Danish government announced this intention on April 6th, a couple of hours after I finished the first draft of this book. I am writing this update on April 17th, and it is the third day that my son has been to school since it re-opened. My daughter will recommence kindergarten this coming Monday, April 20th. The re-opening phase is a new experience altogether, but the lessons learned during the lockdown still very much apply.]

      Four days before starting work on the book you are reading, I published Book 2 in the Gameful Life series, titled Gameful Healing. On that day, the brilliant editor and cover designer for my books, Alice Jago, and I exchanged a couple of e-mails. In one of them, Alice suggested that I write a blog post, Gameful Isolation, to share how the approach I developed and call Self-Gamification could help in the current COVID-19 pandemic.

      I loved the idea but soon realized that a blog post would be too short a medium to discuss this multi-dimensional topic. So I decided to write a little book. A short one, but still a book. I’ve kept the chapters as brief as possible. There is only one chapter a little over two thousand words, which is a roughly ten minute read. The others are all shorter. I like to keep the chapters or sections of my books a length that most people could read during a short coffee-break. It applies to this little book too.

      I recommend that you read this book as

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