The Real-Life Role Playing Games
Let’s address the first of the three tools that Self-Gamification brings together. This tool is anthropology, which is
“the scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans.” — Free Dictionary
When applied to myself (I’ll address this idea in a second), this approach helped me to discover my many quirky thought patterns. These can be so much fun when observed non-judgmentally and with open-minded interest.
I discovered I had the idea that I didn’t want to learn to play Role-Playing Games (RPG), because I judged them as being too complex.
Only recently, I became aware that we all play many different Role-Playing Games every day.
“A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game; abbreviated RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.” — Wikipedia
You could say we all have real-life role-playing games. We are parents, children to our parents, bosses, employees, students, assistants, and many more. And many of these roles overlap every day. Especially now when we are together with our families at home, helping our children with homeschooling, working, supporting our elderly parents by calling them many times a day, maintaining a household, cooking, and so…
