What Is Kaizen and Why It Matters for Living a Gameful Life
Just as a record-setting marathon runner will continue to search out ways to shave another second off his or her best time, you can seek out strategies to constantly sharpen your life’s game. — Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
How I discovered kaizen and why I was inspired
I didn’t know about kaizen when I first played the game I later named the 5 Minute Perseverance Game. And indeed, I wasn’t seeking to understand why the game was so much fun, I simply enjoyed playing it.
An activity that has always been fun to me since my school and university years is reading. So it was reading, or rather my curiosity about a book, which led me to discover kaizen.
I lived in Denmark (as I still do today) and was about to start a project for a big Danish company on behalf of another Danish company. So when I heard about a seminar called “Danish Workplace Culture,” I immediately wanted to attend. The workshop was fun, valuable, and eye-opening in many respects. The seminar instructor mentioned a book that I’d heard of previously but forgotten to…
