How to Classify Tasks Based on What We Think and Do
You can turn any project or activity into a game — both at work and at home.
But there is another aspect to what we can or should gamify (turn into games). I discovered that most satisfaction comes when I turn those tasks into games that appear tricky or tough. A task seems tough and overwhelming when I resist it. Turning those tough tasks into enjoyable and fun activities helps me melt my procrastination and increase my desire to “play” them. That is the actual fun of Self-Gamification.
Let’s look into this a little more.
Many of us have learned at various points in our lives to classify our projects and tasks into urgent and non-urgent, important and unimportant. I learned and tried to apply this system multiple times too.
While turning my life into games, and by observing myself and the world around me non-judgmentally, I discovered that there are only two types of projects and tasks depending on how I treat them.
I either:
- escape from them, or
- escape to them.
That is it. Nothing more.
There is, of course, psychological research about how and why we behave in various situations. Human behavior is so complex that there are numerous scientific…
