128 - What games can teach us about designing better workshops with Lily Higgins

Games are fun, silly, not based in reality… We can take our serious selves into games and embrace playfulness, but it’s a lot harder to take the playfulness back with us as we return to the ‘real world’. But what if we see that ‘real world’ as a game itself? What if we saw every interaction as a game? We could press certain buttons, move certain facets, and play with expectations and beliefs that change everything. When a meeting is a game, when an interview is a game, and when relationships ...