January 23, 2025 • 51 mins
In episode 19 of "Gamify This," Samuel takes the hosting spotlight for "Gamify Reading," battling his ADHD to keep things on track. Sean introduces "Digestion Trail," a creative twist on absorbing books, while Puzzle focuses on making reading more engaging through interactive solutions. Who will craft the most compelling reading game? Tune in to find out!
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CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Introduction 13:53 - Gamify . . . "Reading" 15:34 - Round One: Purpose 24:02 - Round Two: Fun 33:34 - POP QUIZ!!! 37:14 - Round Three: Power 46:58 - The Winner
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(00:00):
Welcome back to Gamify This, thepodcast game show featuring the
artist Samuel the gamer, Sean the Nerd Puzzle.
Join us as we compete. To come up with the best
gamified solutions to our daily experiences in Gamify This.
(00:27):
Hi, welcome back to Gamify This.I'm Samuel, your host, joined by
our two Co hosts, Puzzle and Sean.
Puzzle's a nerd, Sean's a gamer.We're going to play some games
based on a real life topic that none of you probably enjoyed
very much. But what's going to be fun about
it is we're going to figure out how to make it fun.
(00:50):
So you want to do that? Good experiences, good
experiences. And none of us are
professionals, but all of us arecreative.
I thought you were going to say none of us have good experiences
this. Is just none of us have good
experiences. We're all have the big sad.
We're all looking for them. Because you need to enjoy life.
(01:10):
Are you drinking like watered down crusty hot sauce?
What? What's going on there?
This is Smirnoff. Anyway, we're going to talk
today about some fun topics. Make him a little bit more fun
because puzzle brings a little bit to the table with his
nerdiness and his ability to putpuzzles.
I have a tendency to figure things out.
(01:33):
This is no longer an inside joke, this is mainstream Coolio
stuff going on. Oh man, my inside joke went
mainstream. Yeah, I went really red there.
Sorry, I do real. And Sean's a gamer, so he knows
a lot about how to waste time. Those aren't related, those are
(01:54):
two separate. We're going to bring in some
ideas here today. I was like, can you calmly
drink? Alcohol.
That was water. I can't calmly drink water.
And yeah, so he's going to find us ways to waste our time doing
a normal thing. And I being an artist, I'm going
to artistically judge both of them for their game ideas.
(02:17):
But before we get into that, we like to talk a little bit about
ourselves and what has happened to us since the last time we
were together, and maybe some ways that we've been actually
playing the games that we who must go first.
So I I called the police on myself on accident while I was
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house sitting. This is a great story so.
I'm house sitting for some friends and I was like, OK, I'm
going to turn on the security alarm.
So I I push the security buttonsand it's like, OK, it's armed.
If you open the door, we'll callthe police right away.
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And I open the door and it callsthe police.
Right away. With ease.
Hooray, the police officer showsup and he's like, it's the
police. I'm like, well, so I go down the
stairs and and he's like, hi, your parents home and I'm like,
no, I'm house sitting Sir. And he's like, oh, do you have
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your phone on you? And I'm like, no.
And he's like, can I get your phone with you?
And I'm like, yeah, sure. And I'm walking up the stairs
and I'm like, what's your name? And he's like, well, I'm Officer
Bo, Host Cadizzle, whatever. I don't remember what his name
is, but he said officer at the beginning.
And I'm like, Oh yeah, this is not a casual situation.
(03:47):
This is the real thing. Anyway, I get upstairs and I
call the the people and they don't pick up because it's
12:30. And I'm like, well, Officer Boho
Skadizzle, what do you want to do now?
And he's like, well, do you havetext messages?
And I'm like, oh, yeah, I talkedto the mom of the family.
She said I could have their rotisserie chicken in the
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fridge. And I gave him the text message.
And he's like, and he goes, all right, have a better night.
And he leaves. I was so scared.
I mean, but. He was, he was nice though.
He was just doing his job. I appreciated him A.
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Good Christian cop. I don't know if he was a Chris
Hissen. Anyway, I also changed my senior
thesis topic like the week before.
I'm supposed to submit it to a board.
Just the topic, right, Not the whole thesis.
I've changed the whole thesis. No, no, I mean you don't have to
submit the whole thesis in a week, just the topic.
(04:50):
I have to submit the whole thesis on Thursday.
Wait, no sorry, the issue the but.
Not the whole paper. No, yeah.
No, I'm not presenting the thesis.
That was a really good story, Sean.
Now we want to talk a little bitabout gamification.
I had a faith crisis because I changed my senior thesis topic
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from human trafficking to questioning your Faith.
And then my soul exploded withinme because I was like, am IA
freaking Christian? I think so why am I beating
myself up about this? Am IA healthy person?
No, probably not. Wait.
Am IA Christian? Probably not wait.
Yes huh. And it just goes.
(05:39):
It ended in just total existential dread for a couple
hours, by the way. God, be kind to yourselves right
now because we are going througha seasonal change and for some
of us that comes with very strong existential dread and for
some of us more than others, where they just won't understand
you and what you're feeling. But I've been affected by it.
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My friends have been affected byit.
I've also got actual things going on in my life that make me
feel certain ways. But the the the season will do
that to you, OK. And it's good advice to follow
in general. I mean, I think it's really just
even the narcissists need to be kind of themselves.
In my opinion, the reason they're narcissists is because
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they don't believe they're good enough, so they just pretend
they are. There's also clinical narcissism
where it's just something that is a thing that's wired poorly
in their brain. So I got my heart broken.
Before that I was playing Gamifydating and I actually went into
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my game where I what, what was my game?
I I never came up with a really good name for it, but the one
where you date three people before you rated date the one
you really want. Yeah, it was like a phrase.
The name was a whole phrase. Yeah, it was.
You get, you get some you for the one, or you get some to win
one or something. Like that you use some to win.
(07:06):
Oh is you win some for the one. Yeah, you don't use.
That's not a good word to use here.
It was supposed to sound like you win some, you lose some, but
as you win some for the one, andI was trying to win a few at the
same time. I just went through all the
phases of the game, even the brushing the hair out of her
face, leaning in for the kiss, all those things.
(07:28):
And then I ended up, yeah, let us say some things escalated
quickly and I got disappointed. I got invested for the first
time in a long time. Is it possible that part of it
was because you were dating a whole bunch of people, or do you
think it was just with this one person?
I think what I learned from it is I'm not going to be as good
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at dating a lot of people at once as some people are, because
I get attached really quickly and really it matters a little
more to me than it does to some people.
I think one thing that was a a small issue was they started out
saying, hey, neither is going totake it too seriously.
We're going to see what happens.But Samuel didn't realize that
it was pretty serious from the very beginning for him, and he
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couldn't quite make amends with those feelings and what was
being said. Well, I was trying to be careful
too because I was using a lot ofthe for now and we'll see and
that kind of thing. And like, that's how I feel at
this moment. But I'm dating around those kind
of things. It's going to take another seven
years. I'm sorry.
I wasn't going to say seven years there is.
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That's how it was for Jacob. There is no you're the freaking
Bible. There is no problem with taking
time to recover. In fact, I think most of us
forget that we're hurt and startdoing other things and then all
of a sudden we forget about it. And then we get reminded and
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we're like, ow, my hips broken, I forgot about that.
But yeah, that's one way that I gamified my life.
You got to be careful with some of these games and the effects
they'll have on you. Real quick, my love life is
strange. I'm not going to say anything
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more. I, I always feel bad because I
think Samuel and I really close friends, but I always feel
unqualified and not the right person to talk to because I've
only ever been in one relationship.
And yeah, we've been through a lot of seasons.
Jesse and I have been through a lot of seasons and been through
a lot of things, have figured out how we have changed over the
years. Like we've been dating for
almost five years now and we've become different people
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throughout those time periods. We're always figuring each other
out, figuring ourselves out, figuring out how our
relationship is in these different phases.
But I've never broken up with someone.
I've never been led on by someone.
I've never been cheated on by someone I've never been ghosted
by. Somewhat like it's.
There's a whole range of experiences that you haven't
(10:00):
touched. Yeah, right.
Back to the dating episode. Your experiences and my
experiences. Very.
The dating episode, I was the whole thing because I thought
Samuel should win because I had nothing I had nothing and at the
end Sean was like, well, I really wanted you to win Samuel,
but I just gave puzzles so many points I'm.
So sorry so. Many more explosions.
(10:22):
I don't know so just real quick,because I did want to spend a
little time on the gaming and puzzle.
Sean you went into your existential whatever which is
which is good, but that took over some of the time.
Have either of you we've we've made a lot of games about life
about things that we face every day in our lives.
Have you noticed yourself sort of playing them and are there
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any that have stood out to you that you've been playing be
getting good at like I have withdating?
It has stood out to me the importance.
The application has been pretty bad because I my daily spoon
count has gone down to like 3. I don't know why I don't.
Know where you're spooning a fewpeople.
I'm going to ask for a definition of spoon.
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It's an allegory for how much bandwidth you have mentally and
physically. So yeah, you've told me this
before. If every day you had 10 spoons,
going to school takes 3 spoons, Doing the dishes takes one
spoon, doing the laundry does one spoon, having a hard
conversation with someone might take 3 spoons, etcetera.
When you're out of spoons, you have a reason to explain to
yourself why you're exhausted. But I've just been fatigued.
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I've just been burnt out and unable to use my brain, unable
to use my emotions. I've just kind of been.
I'd like. Aside from my two job
interviews, I don't know what I've done the past two weeks.
It's just been a blur and I think I might be like really
depressed right now and not knowit and it's just like not sad
depressed, just the depression because of the changing season
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and like that's draining. I'm not sad.
I'm just like out of energy and just don't feel like existing.
Yeah, so he has. And I'm wondering if my friend
is also dealing with this, just like this sudden disconnection
from any emotion, just like we're I'll be talking to him or
whatever and he just won't care.He just doesn't have enough
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energy to be emotionally invested in what's going on in
my life. It's like now I'm paying spoon
bills every day and I can't use them for fun.
I totally understand what you mean and and you're not alone.
I, I recorded a video and I don't know if I'm ever going to
come out with it. And I had this idea and I don't
know, I don't want to take a bunch of a bunch of time, but I
just sat down and started talking about my experiences
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with perfectionism and burnout. The more I do something, the
longer it takes for me to do it again because it has to be
better than last time. And it just makes everything
impossible. It makes just looking at
something impossible because I just can't do it.
And I have to reconcile that if I want people to see it, I have
to be OK with it just existing. Being mediocre.
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Mediocre doesn't exist. Mediocre is arbitrary.
Mediocre is subjective. I should just do things and not
care as much and just enjoy themand not let them do the opposite
of what I want them to do. Like it's counterintuitive.
I just need to know because we have gone way over time because
I wanted to take this segment totalk about how you've applied
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one of the games in your life. Oh yeah?
Which game was that? Can I take it for a little bit?
I've been doing Look Around You,which is one that I made at the
very start, which I've just always thought was good.
One of my best ones for context,I've been having a lot of
trouble feeling present, remembering what I've done,
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feeling like I'm actually in theworld kind of just like I've I
have a sleepy fog whenever I'm doing everything.
And so I have to intentionally break that.
And Look Around You has been helping me a lot with that.
Now we're going to come to the part that this is all about now,
that opening sequence, getting them some startup points.
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But for this next part of the game, we're actually going to
get into the main topic of this particular episode.
And I have made this spinner to help us come up with topics to
help us see what it is that we're going to be gaming.
And it will choose for us because I'm that creative.
OK, ready guys. Today we are gamifying reading a
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book. Oh yes.
OK. I was not expecting this of all
the ones I was thinking of, I even forgot that this one was on
here and I still don't remember that this one is on here.
But the reason I put it on thereis because sometimes in my life,
like now, I cannot pick up a book.
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I just, I, I can't do it. I can't pick up a book.
I can't read. I, I can't even read things on
my computer sometimes. And we're reading all the time.
That's one of the reasons it's hard to read books now is
because we spend so much time reading on our phones, but we
want to come up with a game that's really going to help us.
But this first one, guys, beforeyou create this game, I want you
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to focus. What is the purpose?
Why is it important to read a book?
Integrate that into there so that this game has meaning.
So I'll give you 10 minutes. That's a very long time.
So is it 5 minutes? Is it supposed to be 5?
Minutes. I mean I think a cap of 5
minutes is good but like. I gave you 2 minutes and you're
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like, that's too short. I give you 10 minutes.
You say it's too long. Ready.
Set. Go.
All right. Ready.
Yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready.
So I guess puzzle is going first.
My game is pretty short and I'm open to questions and answers
afterwards. Because I don't want to take
something I. Don't want to take a bunch of
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your time by just talking and talking and talking and losing
your interest, but my game is called Read Up.
How to Level up Your Reading Game According to the article
How to Enjoy Reading Books from roxyandkey.com.
Many people feel pressured to read because it's seen as
something that smart people do, and it's often associated with
success. However, genuine enjoyment of
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something stems from personal motivation rather than societal
expectations or outward pressure.
So to make reading more engaging, you need to turn it
into a game. So you can do this by following
these three very simple, very small, easy to do steps.
Number one, set goals and rewards.
Decide to read, for example, 30 minutes a day.
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After a week of hitting this goal, treat yourself to a
favorite snack or activity that you have prevented yourself from
doing. You've replaced it with reading.
After replacing it for seven consecutive days, reward
yourself with this thing that you have taken out of your life
#2 track progress. You can use a reading app like
Goodreads to log books and set completion deadlines.
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You can track your streaks and celebrate milestones like
reaching 510 or 20 books. Realistically, you might not
read that many books when you first start out.
Like it might be slower, but youcan celebrate milestones on
social media, share your progress and keep up a streak.
And then three, join challenges.There are a lot of readathons
and online forums and Reddit subreddits and stuff like that
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for reading communities. There's there's a subreddit for
every single genre of book. Try to find a community that is
enjoying a book that you're currently reading, maybe a
friend or two or even a whole book club and participate with
people for 30 days and maybe compete with them a little bit
and create your own by setting themed monthly goals like read 3
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mystery novels or read 3 self help books or here in October
read 3 horror books. So those are the those are the
three steps. Set goals and rewards, track
progress and join challenges. I know these are very nebulous,
vague abstract gamification methods, but I think they'll
really help you and your readingjourney using read up.
Read up nice good job staying within the timely parameter
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critical feedback. No, I liked it.
OK, just for the course par sortof deal.
Yes, this is exactly the kind ofgame I want you to create.
The course we were in, we want to focus a little bit more on
the purpose. Oh, all right, Sean, it's your
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turn. All right, welcome to the
digestion. You not only went away from your
one word nerve, you not only went away, you not only went
away from your one word names. Oh, you dare say something as
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vile as that? So sit back down before I
destroy you. Welcome to digestion trail.
This is like organ trail, but you're digesting a book.
Oh, did you think that that gamewas called Organ Trail?
No. So every book is a journey, and
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the journey is different for every person.
The three types of reasons for reading a book are perspective
changes, finding new informationthat did you just find
interesting or for entertainment.
And before you start your journey with a book, your game,
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you have a level select where you can select different
combinations of these reasons. You could read a book entirely
for entertainment or you could do a combination of perspective
and information, gaining all that it's completely
customizable, and then you embark on your journey into the
book. Objectives while you're reading
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through it include getting more points.
Hang on, how do I say this? High scores reached by getting
more points in particular areas you wish to grow as well as
reading more in a period of timethan you normally did as well as
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achievements such as earning combinations of man.
I'm just saying combinations a lot that.
Is combo. I'm just going to say there is
achievements and leave it that. I'll come back to that later.
After each chapter, each level, there is a rest stop.
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This is an elevator room. This is a pasture.
This is a nice safe place where you can look back and be like,
hey, I learned something. Or, and if you didn't learn what
you wanted to learn, or if you didn't get entertained, didn't
get your information, you can figure out what to do next time.
You also have an emergency mental fog cookie, which lets
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you just stop reading for a little bit and refocus so that
you don't keep rereading the same sentence over and over, or
not being able to visualize the environment or just not getting
the ideas that you're reading. And so you take a minute to
refocus, step away from the book, get a snack or something,
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and then you get back on. You can do as many of these
chapter levels as you want and as many of the good as you wish.
Puzzle as disrespectful. That was a mistake.
This always happened, So what isit you're doing?
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What is it you're doing when you're accidentally running into
sound? Effects.
There we go. Now I can just listen to it.
I feel like you can only do thatas the host.
Yeah, that's valid. OK, whoa whoa whoa.
I'm trying to stop my timer and I'm lapping it instead.
OK. Sean, you did go a minute
overtime. Oh, no.
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So you lost five points. That's a lot.
It is, except you started with 20, so not too bad.
OK. When you get the light, you need
to wrap it up. Oh OK, I thought you were just
being weird. I can't believe I pulled a Sean
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and immediately forgot about theprayer.
Like I pulled a Sean and I completely forgot that you said
focus on the purpose, even though you really strongly
focused on that. I completely forgot.
Just like Sean didn't make a prayer for extra five points
last round. Right, that's OK.
Your game is really good. So if you're like me, but you
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know, you probably aren't, you probably think, man, why would I
sit down and read a book? I want to, I want to read a book
that's fun. You know what?
A book that's fun. It doesn't have words.
It has pictures and sounds and it is called a movie.
And you can play it because it is a movie game, whereas some
people like to call it a video game.
How could you take a book that you need to read or that you
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have been seeking to read or that you have been challenged to
read? You know, it's just like this is
something I need to do and I can't get myself to do it
because it's not fun enough. For this next round, this level,
we want to focus on making a reading experience that is more
fun. So fun.
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How can we incorporate? What?
Sorry I just googled how to enjoy reading books you don't
want to read and #1 was get checked for learning
disabilities and like wow OK. OK, cool.
This is this is very targeted atme.
Hey you get checked for learningdisabilities, why would you even
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Google this? And yes, especially focus on the
books that we don't want to read.
And let's make this a little bitmore fun.
There's a fun way to do this andy'all better get started.
All right, that's time. Who's I can go?
OK, Sean. All right, welcome to the
Digestion Sprint. I really don't like that.
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I don't like that a lot. Let's not do that.
I don't have a title for this one, but it's the same game.
It's just the same. It's just a different section.
Things that carry over are the mental fog cookie, it works the
same way. The safe rooms, they work the
same way. The only difference is that this
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is not lining up a target and carefully considering your
objectives. This is a running gun in which
you are desperately trying to find any meaning whatsoever you
can grasp hold of and you are going to squeeze the juice out
of it. You need to actively set up
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rewards for yourself. One way I like to do this is
every time I flip a page I give myself a chip.
I knew that was going to be it. Have love dogs yourself out of
existence so that you will learnto enjoy the book.
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You also want to put on your relatability cap, which
automatically shows you connections to what you already
know. See, you're going to look at
these words. It's going to highlight the
words in real time and say you learned about Genghis Khan in
school today. This is talking about Genghis
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Khan. Stuff like that to get you
interested. Relatability.
So instead. My toes smell like band aids.
Is that my fault? It's mine.
So instead of choosing what meaning you're looking for, you
are going to look out for any points you can grab from any
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topic. Perspective changes, knowledge
growing and entertainment and you are going to congratulate
your freaking self every time you find something good.
You remember there is no leisurehere.
You are on a mission and if you fail, there's no telling what's
going to happen. The main difference is that this
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is not you're trying to get a specific meaning out of it.
This is like you're you're you're picking berries of good
meaning as you go along. Let's just call it run and gun.
Actually, I'm never going to wina game of finally this episode.
What are? You talking about when's the
last time you won? I don't know.
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Actually, how long has it been since you've won?
You hosted Anger, that was 2 episodes ago.
It's. Just because the.
Episodes have been so far apart.Yeah, we're.
Working our way away from that as I understand, and I hope we
stay focused on that. I don't want to hear this
recording and be like, wow, it was two years ago that we said
that because that's what's happened with a lot of the
podcast and that's what's happened with my YouTube
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channel. I'm sorry.
I'm just working on Sean's points a little bit.
You got a plus one for being ready first, just like Puzzle
got a + 1 and I want a plus one,but we're just going to have to
wait. Hold on, Gamify.
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Drowning in your sorrows. I'm thinking here, I'm like, I
really like this run and gun concept.
I don't know. I don't know if Puzzle's going
to be able to outdo that, honestly.
But Puzzle, what is your game? Read up level 2 Book Quest.
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Do you have that one book you know will change your life but
you just can't seem to get through it?
Book Quest turns reading into anadventure where every page is a
new mission and every chapter isa level to conquer.
Whether it's a dense philosophy book or a complex self help
book, Book Quest breaks it down into a game you will want to
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play. Here's how it works.
Step 1. You set your quest.
You choose that book you want toread and decide on your ultimate
goal. Place it on the book quest map
and visualize your progress. Step 2 Missions.
Every chapter is a level, and ithas its own small missions
inside of it. One of those missions includes
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solving mental QuickTime puzzlesby summarizing key points.
What? Puzzle games, yes.
Solving a mental puzzle by summary, summarizing key points,
and that earns you 15 XP. If you read 10 pages, you earn
10 XP. Basically, a page equals an XP.
You get to choose that in the first step when you set your
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quest. If it's a longer book, maybe
each page is worth less XP. If it's a short book with a lot
of good content, maybe each pageis worth 5 XP.
But you decide that in the firststep anyway.
Step 2 is missions where every chapter is a level and that's
broken up into small missions like reading pages summarizing
key points, and those are the only missions I have so far.
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Each completed mission brings you closer to that goal.
Step 3 earn rewards. The more you read, the more
rewards you can unlock. You earn treasure points for
every level completed, and you redeem those for fun perks, a
favorite snack, a cozy 10 minutebreak, or even a movie night.
Once you have enough points, Themore challenging the mission,
the bigger the reward. Step 4.
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By the way, there's five steps, so we're almost there.
Step 4. Track your journey.
You use that book quest map to visualize your progress.
Each chapter is a point on your map guiding you through the
story Kingdom. Track your path through the
books themes and see how close you are to conquering the final
chapter. Every page turned is a step
closer to your next achievement.Step 5.
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Master special challenges. If you want an extra challenge,
take on boss battles at the end of more difficult chapters.
Summarize those ideas you're struggling with, explain them in
your own words, and discuss themwith a friend for an extra 30
XP. This will help solidify your
understanding, level up your knowledge, and get you extra
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juicy points. Reading shouldn't be a chore.
With book quest, you can turn those difficult reads into
thrilling adventures. Every book comes.
No, every book becomes an exciting new quest where you
grow stronger, smarter, and morecurious with each level you
conquer. Whether you're tackling classic
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literature, dense academic texts, or complex self help
guides, Book Quest helps you focus on the purpose of reading
to learn, grow, and enrich your life while making it a fun,
gamified experience. The only one I didn't get.
Well, there were two things I didn't get the boss level.
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The other thing I didn't get wasis this page by page?
Well, is it or this book by book?
But the thing I really liked? Was when you said dance
philosophy book? I am excited to read A Dent, a
book on dance philosophy by the Just Dance Crap, Just Dance.
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I've LED you on, I said. Dent.
We're not the only one to leave me on.
I leave myself on. OK, so let me break it down for
you. The whole page to XP thing is
kind of convoluted and I wanted I wanted to run past it because
I could have spent a lot of timeon it.
Say you have a 500 page book that you know has a lot of
content in it, but it's 500 pages so maybe.
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I get the XP. Each page is worth one XP, but
if there's a 50 page book but a lot of people are recommending
it to you and you know it's going to really change your life
so it's only 50 pages, each pageis worth a lot more points.
That's why my point system confuses you so much, because
one day I'll be basing on like 60 points, 100 points, other
days like 1.2 points. It's like it's just whatever
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gets you to the what the level of the completion is and whoever
gets there first. And then also the boss fight is
when you take a concept that you're struggling with and
explain it to another person. Oh, it's the mind to action
part. Yeah, summarize complex ideas,
explain them in your own words, and discuss them with a friend
for an extra 30 XP. Putting the knowledge, putting
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the putting the learning to the test, Putting the knowledge to
power by knowledge being applied.
Do you have an out for or like asolution when you're reading the
book and you have mental fog or a motivation dip or you just
stop wanting to? That's more of your psyche.
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That's more gamifying focus, gamifying concentration.
This is focused on the book itself and on learning and
trying. I put some motivation in there
with the points being redeemed for rewards, but I am not a
therapist and I don't want to focus too much on that.
I know, shocking. I didn't want to put too much
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into that because I wanted to focus more on the journey of
reading endless on the nitty gritty of your day-to-day life
because you could be so many different things that affect
your focus. And I didn't want to try to have
a one size fit doll because there's.
Nothing like that, true. And now, guys, it's time for a
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pop quiz. At this point in the episode, I
get The Gamer and the Nerd to try to guess from my artistic
mind what a true fact is and what the rest is just.
And So what we're going to do iswe're going to give you the
chance to participate in this vote.
I'm going to ask a question. I'm going to give you various
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answers and what they could possibly be.
And you are going to Scroll downon Spotify.
Definitely. You can only do this on Spotify.
If you're watching this on YouTube and stuff, I'm sorry.
Just write down your answer and submit an e-mail to gamify this
podcast and say I won. Or something we'll.
Send her a cookie. You can comment in the YouTube
comments section too. You don't have to e-mail us.
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Only e-mail us. I don't see your comments
that's. Because no one freaking caught
I'm. All right, and here is the quiz.
Are you guys ready? Yeah.
What is the oldest book that hasbeen found?
Is it a The Grass Mummy book, B The Dead Sea Scrolls or C The
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Epic of Gilgamesh? Should we enter in the game of
fire chat? Yes, do that.
Set example by B example, but also I will want to hear well,
actually, oh oh, you're talking about the chat on Discord over
here. Yeah, just so that we don't talk
over each other and take each other's answers.
What was number A? A was yeah like a Graz mummy
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book, B the Dead Sea Scrolls, and C is the Epic of Gilgamesh.
How many points are we wagering for this?
A point? A singular point. 321 See, The
Epic of Gilgamesh is both of your guesses, and it is
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incorrect. Oh.
Is this the Mummy book? It's the mummy book.
So actually guys, it was a trickquestion.
I listed 2 scrolls and one book.Book being something that's
bound. I think people are going to hate
me for this. People are going to hate me for
this. So this is the oldest found
book. Before this we didn't have like
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that form of book. They were like scrolls and stuff
like that. But the oldest found book, book
as we think of a book bound withpages.
Was this mummy book written by apparently a mummy or for a
mummy? Yes, I like the interpretation
that the Mummy wrote the book. Random trivia, this is also the
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oldest the The Grouse Mummy bookis one of the oldest examples of
defined margins and like formatting.
It's one of the oldest examples of margins and formatting and
being bound like it. This was like very professional.
So do you know why they did margins?
It was protection just so that it.
Didn't bleed out the edges well.You got rats, you got fire, you
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got weathering, you got, you gotlike people flipping the pages.
You're going to destroy the paper.
After a while, they cared a lot about preserving it.
So it was like we're just going to put a buffer in between the
information and the world, kind of.
Samuel, if you're clued out, margin is the white space where
letters aren't on a page. Right, I thought he was talking
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about columns for some reason, which is the space between the
margins where the words are. This is the first time words.
So I feel like Puzzles doing a really good job at looking ahead
to the next round, each and eachof these levels and what he's
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done, which is great, but also makes me feel bad for them him
because he could be winning so many more points on those next
level. I really focused on purpose,
huh? I really did.
I did. You did.
You just focused on the wrong things.
The wrong thing? So here's the thing, I would
excuse Kenneth Copeland's behavior if he was like on coke,
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but I really don't. I honestly don't think he would
do drugs. So I just don't know how to.
I just don't know how to explainhis behavior.
Maybe he would, maybe he would, maybe he would do drugs like
coke and be like this is the work of the Lord.
OK guys, for this final level, there's going to be a big
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purpose on a big focus on something else.
So we talked about purpose. That's what and why why you want
to do this, why you want to get to this book thing.
We talked about fun dance philosophy books sound really
fun and puzzle got 300 points for that.
Now we're going to talk about issues, issues that I have,
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issues that you have, issues that we have that make it very
difficult to read books. It there's dyslexia, there's
distractions, and there's dystopia, the ending of the
world as we know it right now outside it really makes it
difficult to read books. Let's get into that.
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Let's get into that dyslexia, distractions, dystopia by
showing me how we can become more empowered to fight those
things. Give us the power to read these
books, to read these words, to obtain this knowledge, to do it
well. Help me read a book more
powerfully. Puzzle the boss level thing.
I mean, that was so good. I forgot that you literally do
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this every time you host. Fun purpose and power of game.
Purpose on power. On purpose power, on purpose
power. You've hosted like 7 episodes of
this point. I always forget too, and I'm
today I'm like, how am I going to do this?
How am I going to break up theserounds?
But I know what I can do. So the purpose of this one is
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finding solutions to hurdles. That's a good idea.
Is that what the OK I'm? Gonna give you guys a number of
minutes. I asked him what it was and he's
like, oh, that's a good idea. OK, I'm sorry.
I can't. I can't Go tell me one more
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time. What?
What? What's being powered?
What? What is this?
Well, just keep in mind the dyslexia, distraction and
dystopia are, as Sean said, hurdles.
But the real focus here, we wantpower.
We want power and we want power.It could be internal power, a
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no, no, no, a power up. It could be an external power, a
boost, and it could be a lastingpower, a buff.
We might want all of those. Can you remind me the difference
between boost and buff? A boost is like an energy drink.
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No, no, no, sorry. A boost is like when you hit the
accelerator in your car, or whensomebody pushes you forward.
Or it's it's an external force that affects you in the moment.
No. Is that different from a power
up? It's different.
From a power up, because a powerup is an internal force that
helps you on the inside, like anenergy drink or coffee or, or or
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something like that. Something that makes changes who
you are for a minute. A boost is something that
changes how you are for a minute, and a buff is something
that changes who and how you are.
All right, who's ready? I can go.
OK. Sean, what is it?
Your eyes skip words and reread the same sentence over and over.
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Your stomach growls because you forgot to eat.
You die because you didn't thinkyou were worthy of life.
Have you had these problems while reading your favorite
book? If you have, you're not alone.
Tackling a book requires a constant battle with yourself.
With Boss Fight, you can use this book as the end bill to
smash your problems. Every chapter is a level.
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At the end of every chapter you have a rest stop, which you use
to look back, look forward, takea moment and glory in your
victory over your own incompetence.
You have 3 mental fog cookies for each chapter, which you used
to take a break in the middle and refocus.
This is like Running Gun, but you're looking for mental,
emotional, spiritual, and physical problems within
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yourself that you haven't spent a lot of time trying to fix.
Take time to understand your dyslexia, practice pushing past
your focus problems, allow yourself to feel freely, and
make sure you're well fed while you're exploring the hurdles you
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need to overcome to be a more healthy person.
Challenging perspectives gives you a mental booster, giving you
something to think about for a while.
Allowing yourself to feel freelyabout the content of the book
gives you an emotional power up and gives you practice at
understanding yourself as you gothroughout your daily life.
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This is boss battle. Sorry, boss fight where the boss
is you and you're looking for weak points to attack your own
unhealth. That's pretty good, Sean.
Thank you. Not going to lie.
Michael, I do. I have to say I'm heavily
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inspired by your style of presenting.
Thank you. That was a lot of where that
came from because you are prettyconsistently very good at making
it interesting, so. Here's the thing, I don't have a
name for this round. It's just called Power Ups.
Oh no, you've hit the Valley of Distraction.
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You got tangled in the dyslexia dunes or you stumbled into this.
Did sorry end it? End it all.
Sorry, there's the guy that's puzzle.
I'm enjoying it. Oh no, you've hit the Valley of
Distraction, got tangled in the Dyslexia Dunes, or stumbled into
the dystopian depths. Never fear adventurer, it's time
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to summon your boosts, buffs andpower ups.
So let's start out with power ups.
These are the external. We've got 2 power ups for you,
the Focus Elixir and the Speed boots.
Boots. Not boost boots.
The Focus Elixir is activating ashort burst of focus within a 15
to 20 minute reading Sprint. Eliminate all distractions.
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Put your phone in a different room.
Tell everyone to leave you A room.
Alone. Alone.
Put your phone in a different room, tell everyone to leave you
alone. Find a cozy spot and set a timer
or an extra XP for completing each Sprint.
Afterwards, take a recharge or maybe be done with the day
because that might have hit yourdaily goal.
Speed Boots Feeling bogged down?Equip the speed boots, skim
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points and scan for main ideas. Look for bold text and or pair
your reading with an audio book.This will help you speed through
it and maintain momentum withoutgetting stuck in the quicksand
of dense text. Dense, not dance.
Same old dense. I didn't say dance.
Again, it's not dance text, it'sdense boosts.
These are external. We got the Mindful Mirror and
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the Clarity charm. The Mindful mirror is when your
thoughts are drifting and this boost is to bring them back.
Take deep breaths, close your eyes and refocus.
Repeat key phrases to ground your attention.
This is like playing look aroundyou when you're having trouble
reading. This helps you identify
distractions and gently steer your mind back on course, making
each reading session more effective.
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And then the Clarity charm. Facing a wall of complex ideas,
the Clarity Charm can light the way.
Use highlighters, digital tools,or annotations to untangle
tricky passages. Visual aids like diagrams and
mind maps can really help you get through those dense parts of
text, making even the hardest material clear and easy to
understand. And then we got a buff.
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We got one buff because I can't really think of many permanent
upgrades to reading, but I've got one and this one's pretty
good. This is a permanent buff that
will forever change the way you read, so listen closely.
Inside aura. This buff represents a long term
upgrade, a permanent upgrade with regular practice.
Build a habit of reading summaries before diving into
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chapters. This will give you a clear road
map of the content ahead. Over time, this habit will help
you digest complex books more easily, giving you a permanent
advantage when approaching new material.
So equip your Focus Elixir Slip on your Speed Boots and Harmony,
but I'm So equip your Focus Elixir Slip on your Speed Boots
and harness the Mindful Mirror and Clarity Charm to navigate
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any challenge. Every page turned brings you
closer to mastering the text, earning points and levelling up
to become a master reader. I don't know how you did it, but
that was actually pretty good. Oh no, I had an article.
I had a source I was going to reference.
Oh, no puzzle. You did a really, really good
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job following the assignment andyou both did a really good job
with each of your games. Sean, the problem I have with
this one, you said look for problems.
You said try to understand whichthese are absolutely power ups,
but it's not a power up that I can place.
It's more like these are going to help, these are going to
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solve the problem. You do get your 40 points for
that one, but you don't get anything else.
Oh, that was so savage. The main thing was because I
feel in a way you didn't really tell me how, and that that's one
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of the hard things about this judging system is I would need
you to tell me how to look for those problems or how to try to
understand. Puzzle was specific on the power
ups because he knows that what I'm looking for is something
outside of yourself, something inside that you can put inside
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yourself to change you. I was getting to specifics but I
ran out of time. You still got your 40 points and
a big pat on the back from me because I really liked that you
were talking about fighting yourself and going after
yourself as the boss battle and understanding what the hurdles
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are so that you can overcome them.
My main idea was that you are using the book as a place to get
power ups for your life. Yes, this was a very close game.
Oh, round, not round one. But in our early talk we got you
guys some points. I was going to say Sean had done
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the best because I was asking for a gamification in your life
and I wouldn't hear like if we've actually been playing
these games. And Sean went right into it with
two answers. And I gave him points for that.
And Puzzle was talking about theproblems he was having.
And I didn't realize that he wastalking about a game he was
coming up with as a result of that.
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So he actually won that, got most points on that because it
was cool. He brought something new in and
another game and he was sharing that with us, something that he
was doing for school and all that.
But when it came down to the actual games, Sean one round
one, Sean one round two, and Puzzle, Puzzle one round 3,
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which really redeemed him because at the end Puzzle had
166 points and Sean had 149 points.
Those are the biggest numbers I've ever heard in my whole
life. Man, I was really confident in
that last one. Sorry, I'm feeling freely.
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I am disappointed. Oh, you did really good.
Sean, if it makes you feel any better, you hosted episode 10.
I get to host episode 20. So maybe down the road Samuel
will host episode 30. We'll see.
Oh yeah, but. Join us next week when I host
Episode 20, Game of Thought. Oh, I'm the host.
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You're not the host yet. Puzzle.
I know I was telling them to come back when I host for
episode 20. Well, guys, thank you for coming
today and listening to us Bramble Bramble about books and
I'm finally feel ready to read abook.
Now I'm going to follow puzzles instructions with a little bit
of tidbits from Sean. Go into your own life and start
playing some games. Take those boring parts of your
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life, like reading a book or those things you need to do,
those things you need to pick up, do them.
That's what we're here to do. Make him at least tolerable.
You can follow puzzle on puzzle MTM on YouTube and twitch and
other sorts of places. You can follow Sean on 10 tiny
potatoes right here. 10 tiny potato OSI believe you can
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follow me on Moser meadows records on YouTube, Moser
meadows records on TikTok. You can follow me on Instagram
at CMO Clause Tuner or just don't.
Hey, don't understand yourself. This is what we always like to
say at the end of these episodesbecause of the game is over game
of. Five this game game game over.
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Game, we say it long or short. We say it long or should we say
it short? Do you think short?
Was that bad? I think short is more like boom.
Game over.
Welcome back to Gamify This, thepodcast game show featuring the
artist Samuel the gamer, Sean the Nerd Puzzle.
Join us as we compete. To come up with the best
gamified solutions to our daily experiences in Gamify This.
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Hi, welcome back to Gamify This.I'm Samuel, your host, joined by
our two Co hosts, Puzzle and Sean.
Puzzle's a nerd, Sean's a gamer.We're going to play some games
based on a real life topic that none of you probably enjoyed
very much. But what's going to be fun about
it is we're going to figure out how to make it fun.
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So you want to do that? Good experiences, good
experiences. And none of us are
professionals, but all of us arecreative.
I thought you were going to say none of us have good experiences
this. Is just none of us have good
experiences. We're all have the big sad.
We're all looking for them. Because you need to enjoy life.
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Are you drinking like watered down crusty hot sauce?
What? What's going on there?
This is Smirnoff. Anyway, we're going to talk
today about some fun topics. Make him a little bit more fun
because puzzle brings a little bit to the table with his
nerdiness and his ability to putpuzzles.
I have a tendency to figure things out.
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This is no longer an inside joke, this is mainstream Coolio
stuff going on. Oh man, my inside joke went
mainstream. Yeah, I went really red there.
Sorry, I do real. And Sean's a gamer, so he knows
a lot about how to waste time. Those aren't related, those are
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two separate. We're going to bring in some
ideas here today. I was like, can you calmly
drink? Alcohol.
That was water. I can't calmly drink water.
And yeah, so he's going to find us ways to waste our time doing
a normal thing. And I being an artist, I'm going
to artistically judge both of them for their game ideas.
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But before we get into that, we like to talk a little bit about
ourselves and what has happened to us since the last time we
were together, and maybe some ways that we've been actually
playing the games that we who must go first.
So I I called the police on myself on accident while I was
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house sitting. This is a great story so.
I'm house sitting for some friends and I was like, OK, I'm
going to turn on the security alarm.
So I I push the security buttonsand it's like, OK, it's armed.
If you open the door, we'll callthe police right away.
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And I open the door and it callsthe police.
Right away. With ease.
Hooray, the police officer showsup and he's like, it's the
police. I'm like, well, so I go down the
stairs and and he's like, hi, your parents home and I'm like,
no, I'm house sitting Sir. And he's like, oh, do you have
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your phone on you? And I'm like, no.
And he's like, can I get your phone with you?
And I'm like, yeah, sure. And I'm walking up the stairs
and I'm like, what's your name? And he's like, well, I'm Officer
Bo, Host Cadizzle, whatever. I don't remember what his name
is, but he said officer at the beginning.
And I'm like, Oh yeah, this is not a casual situation.
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This is the real thing. Anyway, I get upstairs and I
call the the people and they don't pick up because it's
12:30. And I'm like, well, Officer Boho
Skadizzle, what do you want to do now?
And he's like, well, do you havetext messages?
And I'm like, oh, yeah, I talkedto the mom of the family.
She said I could have their rotisserie chicken in the
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fridge. And I gave him the text message.
And he's like, and he goes, all right, have a better night.
And he leaves. I was so scared.
I mean, but. He was, he was nice though.
He was just doing his job. I appreciated him A.
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Good Christian cop. I don't know if he was a Chris
Hissen. Anyway, I also changed my senior
thesis topic like the week before.
I'm supposed to submit it to a board.
Just the topic, right, Not the whole thesis.
I've changed the whole thesis. No, no, I mean you don't have to
submit the whole thesis in a week, just the topic.
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I have to submit the whole thesis on Thursday.
Wait, no sorry, the issue the but.
Not the whole paper. No, yeah.
No, I'm not presenting the thesis.
That was a really good story, Sean.
Now we want to talk a little bitabout gamification.
I had a faith crisis because I changed my senior thesis topic
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from human trafficking to questioning your Faith.
And then my soul exploded withinme because I was like, am IA
freaking Christian? I think so why am I beating
myself up about this? Am IA healthy person?
No, probably not. Wait.
Am IA Christian? Probably not wait.
Yes huh. And it just goes.
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It ended in just total existential dread for a couple
hours, by the way. God, be kind to yourselves right
now because we are going througha seasonal change and for some
of us that comes with very strong existential dread and for
some of us more than others, where they just won't understand
you and what you're feeling. But I've been affected by it.
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My friends have been affected byit.
I've also got actual things going on in my life that make me
feel certain ways. But the the the season will do
that to you, OK. And it's good advice to follow
in general. I mean, I think it's really just
even the narcissists need to be kind of themselves.
In my opinion, the reason they're narcissists is because
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they don't believe they're good enough, so they just pretend
they are. There's also clinical narcissism
where it's just something that is a thing that's wired poorly
in their brain. So I got my heart broken.
Before that I was playing Gamifydating and I actually went into
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my game where I what, what was my game?
I I never came up with a really good name for it, but the one
where you date three people before you rated date the one
you really want. Yeah, it was like a phrase.
The name was a whole phrase. Yeah, it was.
You get, you get some you for the one, or you get some to win
one or something. Like that you use some to win.
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Oh is you win some for the one. Yeah, you don't use.
That's not a good word to use here.
It was supposed to sound like you win some, you lose some, but
as you win some for the one, andI was trying to win a few at the
same time. I just went through all the
phases of the game, even the brushing the hair out of her
face, leaning in for the kiss, all those things.
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And then I ended up, yeah, let us say some things escalated
quickly and I got disappointed. I got invested for the first
time in a long time. Is it possible that part of it
was because you were dating a whole bunch of people, or do you
think it was just with this one person?
I think what I learned from it is I'm not going to be as good
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at dating a lot of people at once as some people are, because
I get attached really quickly and really it matters a little
more to me than it does to some people.
I think one thing that was a a small issue was they started out
saying, hey, neither is going totake it too seriously.
We're going to see what happens.But Samuel didn't realize that
it was pretty serious from the very beginning for him, and he
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couldn't quite make amends with those feelings and what was
being said. Well, I was trying to be careful
too because I was using a lot ofthe for now and we'll see and
that kind of thing. And like, that's how I feel at
this moment. But I'm dating around those kind
of things. It's going to take another seven
years. I'm sorry.
I wasn't going to say seven years there is.
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That's how it was for Jacob. There is no you're the freaking
Bible. There is no problem with taking
time to recover. In fact, I think most of us
forget that we're hurt and startdoing other things and then all
of a sudden we forget about it. And then we get reminded and
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we're like, ow, my hips broken, I forgot about that.
But yeah, that's one way that I gamified my life.
You got to be careful with some of these games and the effects
they'll have on you. Real quick, my love life is
strange. I'm not going to say anything
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more. I, I always feel bad because I
think Samuel and I really close friends, but I always feel
unqualified and not the right person to talk to because I've
only ever been in one relationship.
And yeah, we've been through a lot of seasons.
Jesse and I have been through a lot of seasons and been through
a lot of things, have figured out how we have changed over the
years. Like we've been dating for
almost five years now and we've become different people
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throughout those time periods. We're always figuring each other
out, figuring ourselves out, figuring out how our
relationship is in these different phases.
But I've never broken up with someone.
I've never been led on by someone.
I've never been cheated on by someone I've never been ghosted
by. Somewhat like it's.
There's a whole range of experiences that you haven't
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touched. Yeah, right.
Back to the dating episode. Your experiences and my
experiences. Very.
The dating episode, I was the whole thing because I thought
Samuel should win because I had nothing I had nothing and at the
end Sean was like, well, I really wanted you to win Samuel,
but I just gave puzzles so many points I'm.
So sorry so. Many more explosions.
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I don't know so just real quick,because I did want to spend a
little time on the gaming and puzzle.
Sean you went into your existential whatever which is
which is good, but that took over some of the time.
Have either of you we've we've made a lot of games about life
about things that we face every day in our lives.
Have you noticed yourself sort of playing them and are there
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any that have stood out to you that you've been playing be
getting good at like I have withdating?
It has stood out to me the importance.
The application has been pretty bad because I my daily spoon
count has gone down to like 3. I don't know why I don't.
Know where you're spooning a fewpeople.
I'm going to ask for a definition of spoon.
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It's an allegory for how much bandwidth you have mentally and
physically. So yeah, you've told me this
before. If every day you had 10 spoons,
going to school takes 3 spoons, Doing the dishes takes one
spoon, doing the laundry does one spoon, having a hard
conversation with someone might take 3 spoons, etcetera.
When you're out of spoons, you have a reason to explain to
yourself why you're exhausted. But I've just been fatigued.
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I've just been burnt out and unable to use my brain, unable
to use my emotions. I've just kind of been.
I'd like. Aside from my two job
interviews, I don't know what I've done the past two weeks.
It's just been a blur and I think I might be like really
depressed right now and not knowit and it's just like not sad
depressed, just the depression because of the changing season
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and like that's draining. I'm not sad.
I'm just like out of energy and just don't feel like existing.
Yeah, so he has. And I'm wondering if my friend
is also dealing with this, just like this sudden disconnection
from any emotion, just like we're I'll be talking to him or
whatever and he just won't care.He just doesn't have enough
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energy to be emotionally invested in what's going on in
my life. It's like now I'm paying spoon
bills every day and I can't use them for fun.
I totally understand what you mean and and you're not alone.
I, I recorded a video and I don't know if I'm ever going to
come out with it. And I had this idea and I don't
know, I don't want to take a bunch of a bunch of time, but I
just sat down and started talking about my experiences
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with perfectionism and burnout. The more I do something, the
longer it takes for me to do it again because it has to be
better than last time. And it just makes everything
impossible. It makes just looking at
something impossible because I just can't do it.
And I have to reconcile that if I want people to see it, I have
to be OK with it just existing. Being mediocre.
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Mediocre doesn't exist. Mediocre is arbitrary.
Mediocre is subjective. I should just do things and not
care as much and just enjoy themand not let them do the opposite
of what I want them to do. Like it's counterintuitive.
I just need to know because we have gone way over time because
I wanted to take this segment totalk about how you've applied
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one of the games in your life. Oh yeah?
Which game was that? Can I take it for a little bit?
I've been doing Look Around You,which is one that I made at the
very start, which I've just always thought was good.
One of my best ones for context,I've been having a lot of
trouble feeling present, remembering what I've done,
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feeling like I'm actually in theworld kind of just like I've I
have a sleepy fog whenever I'm doing everything.
And so I have to intentionally break that.
And Look Around You has been helping me a lot with that.
Now we're going to come to the part that this is all about now,
that opening sequence, getting them some startup points.
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But for this next part of the game, we're actually going to
get into the main topic of this particular episode.
And I have made this spinner to help us come up with topics to
help us see what it is that we're going to be gaming.
And it will choose for us because I'm that creative.
OK, ready guys. Today we are gamifying reading a
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book. Oh yes.
OK. I was not expecting this of all
the ones I was thinking of, I even forgot that this one was on
here and I still don't remember that this one is on here.
But the reason I put it on thereis because sometimes in my life,
like now, I cannot pick up a book.
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I just, I, I can't do it. I can't pick up a book.
I can't read. I, I can't even read things on
my computer sometimes. And we're reading all the time.
That's one of the reasons it's hard to read books now is
because we spend so much time reading on our phones, but we
want to come up with a game that's really going to help us.
But this first one, guys, beforeyou create this game, I want you
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to focus. What is the purpose?
Why is it important to read a book?
Integrate that into there so that this game has meaning.
So I'll give you 10 minutes. That's a very long time.
So is it 5 minutes? Is it supposed to be 5?
Minutes. I mean I think a cap of 5
minutes is good but like. I gave you 2 minutes and you're
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like, that's too short. I give you 10 minutes.
You say it's too long. Ready.
Set. Go.
All right. Ready.
Yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready.
So I guess puzzle is going first.
My game is pretty short and I'm open to questions and answers
afterwards. Because I don't want to take
something I. Don't want to take a bunch of
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your time by just talking and talking and talking and losing
your interest, but my game is called Read Up.
How to Level up Your Reading Game According to the article
How to Enjoy Reading Books from roxyandkey.com.
Many people feel pressured to read because it's seen as
something that smart people do, and it's often associated with
success. However, genuine enjoyment of
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something stems from personal motivation rather than societal
expectations or outward pressure.
So to make reading more engaging, you need to turn it
into a game. So you can do this by following
these three very simple, very small, easy to do steps.
Number one, set goals and rewards.
Decide to read, for example, 30 minutes a day.
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After a week of hitting this goal, treat yourself to a
favorite snack or activity that you have prevented yourself from
doing. You've replaced it with reading.
After replacing it for seven consecutive days, reward
yourself with this thing that you have taken out of your life
#2 track progress. You can use a reading app like
Goodreads to log books and set completion deadlines.
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You can track your streaks and celebrate milestones like
reaching 510 or 20 books. Realistically, you might not
read that many books when you first start out.
Like it might be slower, but youcan celebrate milestones on
social media, share your progress and keep up a streak.
And then three, join challenges.There are a lot of readathons
and online forums and Reddit subreddits and stuff like that
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for reading communities. There's there's a subreddit for
every single genre of book. Try to find a community that is
enjoying a book that you're currently reading, maybe a
friend or two or even a whole book club and participate with
people for 30 days and maybe compete with them a little bit
and create your own by setting themed monthly goals like read 3
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mystery novels or read 3 self help books or here in October
read 3 horror books. So those are the those are the
three steps. Set goals and rewards, track
progress and join challenges. I know these are very nebulous,
vague abstract gamification methods, but I think they'll
really help you and your readingjourney using read up.
Read up nice good job staying within the timely parameter
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critical feedback. No, I liked it.
OK, just for the course par sortof deal.
Yes, this is exactly the kind ofgame I want you to create.
The course we were in, we want to focus a little bit more on
the purpose. Oh, all right, Sean, it's your
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turn. All right, welcome to the
digestion. You not only went away from your
one word nerve, you not only went away, you not only went
away from your one word names. Oh, you dare say something as
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vile as that? So sit back down before I
destroy you. Welcome to digestion trail.
This is like organ trail, but you're digesting a book.
Oh, did you think that that gamewas called Organ Trail?
No. So every book is a journey, and
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the journey is different for every person.
The three types of reasons for reading a book are perspective
changes, finding new informationthat did you just find
interesting or for entertainment.
And before you start your journey with a book, your game,
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you have a level select where you can select different
combinations of these reasons. You could read a book entirely
for entertainment or you could do a combination of perspective
and information, gaining all that it's completely
customizable, and then you embark on your journey into the
book. Objectives while you're reading
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through it include getting more points.
Hang on, how do I say this? High scores reached by getting
more points in particular areas you wish to grow as well as
reading more in a period of timethan you normally did as well as
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achievements such as earning combinations of man.
I'm just saying combinations a lot that.
Is combo. I'm just going to say there is
achievements and leave it that. I'll come back to that later.
After each chapter, each level, there is a rest stop.
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This is an elevator room. This is a pasture.
This is a nice safe place where you can look back and be like,
hey, I learned something. Or, and if you didn't learn what
you wanted to learn, or if you didn't get entertained, didn't
get your information, you can figure out what to do next time.
You also have an emergency mental fog cookie, which lets
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you just stop reading for a little bit and refocus so that
you don't keep rereading the same sentence over and over, or
not being able to visualize the environment or just not getting
the ideas that you're reading. And so you take a minute to
refocus, step away from the book, get a snack or something,
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and then you get back on. You can do as many of these
chapter levels as you want and as many of the good as you wish.
Puzzle as disrespectful. That was a mistake.
This always happened, So what isit you're doing?
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What is it you're doing when you're accidentally running into
sound? Effects.
There we go. Now I can just listen to it.
I feel like you can only do thatas the host.
Yeah, that's valid. OK, whoa whoa whoa.
I'm trying to stop my timer and I'm lapping it instead.
OK. Sean, you did go a minute
overtime. Oh, no.
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So you lost five points. That's a lot.
It is, except you started with 20, so not too bad.
OK. When you get the light, you need
to wrap it up. Oh OK, I thought you were just
being weird. I can't believe I pulled a Sean
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and immediately forgot about theprayer.
Like I pulled a Sean and I completely forgot that you said
focus on the purpose, even though you really strongly
focused on that. I completely forgot.
Just like Sean didn't make a prayer for extra five points
last round. Right, that's OK.
Your game is really good. So if you're like me, but you
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know, you probably aren't, you probably think, man, why would I
sit down and read a book? I want to, I want to read a book
that's fun. You know what?
A book that's fun. It doesn't have words.
It has pictures and sounds and it is called a movie.
And you can play it because it is a movie game, whereas some
people like to call it a video game.
How could you take a book that you need to read or that you
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have been seeking to read or that you have been challenged to
read? You know, it's just like this is
something I need to do and I can't get myself to do it
because it's not fun enough. For this next round, this level,
we want to focus on making a reading experience that is more
fun. So fun.
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How can we incorporate? What?
Sorry I just googled how to enjoy reading books you don't
want to read and #1 was get checked for learning
disabilities and like wow OK. OK, cool.
This is this is very targeted atme.
Hey you get checked for learningdisabilities, why would you even
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Google this? And yes, especially focus on the
books that we don't want to read.
And let's make this a little bitmore fun.
There's a fun way to do this andy'all better get started.
All right, that's time. Who's I can go?
OK, Sean. All right, welcome to the
Digestion Sprint. I really don't like that.
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I don't like that a lot. Let's not do that.
I don't have a title for this one, but it's the same game.
It's just the same. It's just a different section.
Things that carry over are the mental fog cookie, it works the
same way. The safe rooms, they work the
same way. The only difference is that this
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is not lining up a target and carefully considering your
objectives. This is a running gun in which
you are desperately trying to find any meaning whatsoever you
can grasp hold of and you are going to squeeze the juice out
of it. You need to actively set up
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rewards for yourself. One way I like to do this is
every time I flip a page I give myself a chip.
I knew that was going to be it. Have love dogs yourself out of
existence so that you will learnto enjoy the book.
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You also want to put on your relatability cap, which
automatically shows you connections to what you already
know. See, you're going to look at
these words. It's going to highlight the
words in real time and say you learned about Genghis Khan in
school today. This is talking about Genghis
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Khan. Stuff like that to get you
interested. Relatability.
So instead. My toes smell like band aids.
Is that my fault? It's mine.
So instead of choosing what meaning you're looking for, you
are going to look out for any points you can grab from any
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topic. Perspective changes, knowledge
growing and entertainment and you are going to congratulate
your freaking self every time you find something good.
You remember there is no leisurehere.
You are on a mission and if you fail, there's no telling what's
going to happen. The main difference is that this
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is not you're trying to get a specific meaning out of it.
This is like you're you're you're picking berries of good
meaning as you go along. Let's just call it run and gun.
Actually, I'm never going to wina game of finally this episode.
What are? You talking about when's the
last time you won? I don't know.
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Actually, how long has it been since you've won?
You hosted Anger, that was 2 episodes ago.
It's. Just because the.
Episodes have been so far apart.Yeah, we're.
Working our way away from that as I understand, and I hope we
stay focused on that. I don't want to hear this
recording and be like, wow, it was two years ago that we said
that because that's what's happened with a lot of the
podcast and that's what's happened with my YouTube
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channel. I'm sorry.
I'm just working on Sean's points a little bit.
You got a plus one for being ready first, just like Puzzle
got a + 1 and I want a plus one,but we're just going to have to
wait. Hold on, Gamify.
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Drowning in your sorrows. I'm thinking here, I'm like, I
really like this run and gun concept.
I don't know. I don't know if Puzzle's going
to be able to outdo that, honestly.
But Puzzle, what is your game? Read up level 2 Book Quest.
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Do you have that one book you know will change your life but
you just can't seem to get through it?
Book Quest turns reading into anadventure where every page is a
new mission and every chapter isa level to conquer.
Whether it's a dense philosophy book or a complex self help
book, Book Quest breaks it down into a game you will want to
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play. Here's how it works.
Step 1. You set your quest.
You choose that book you want toread and decide on your ultimate
goal. Place it on the book quest map
and visualize your progress. Step 2 Missions.
Every chapter is a level, and ithas its own small missions
inside of it. One of those missions includes
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solving mental QuickTime puzzlesby summarizing key points.
What? Puzzle games, yes.
Solving a mental puzzle by summary, summarizing key points,
and that earns you 15 XP. If you read 10 pages, you earn
10 XP. Basically, a page equals an XP.
You get to choose that in the first step when you set your
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quest. If it's a longer book, maybe
each page is worth less XP. If it's a short book with a lot
of good content, maybe each pageis worth 5 XP.
But you decide that in the firststep anyway.
Step 2 is missions where every chapter is a level and that's
broken up into small missions like reading pages summarizing
key points, and those are the only missions I have so far.
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Each completed mission brings you closer to that goal.
Step 3 earn rewards. The more you read, the more
rewards you can unlock. You earn treasure points for
every level completed, and you redeem those for fun perks, a
favorite snack, a cozy 10 minutebreak, or even a movie night.
Once you have enough points, Themore challenging the mission,
the bigger the reward. Step 4.
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By the way, there's five steps, so we're almost there.
Step 4. Track your journey.
You use that book quest map to visualize your progress.
Each chapter is a point on your map guiding you through the
story Kingdom. Track your path through the
books themes and see how close you are to conquering the final
chapter. Every page turned is a step
closer to your next achievement.Step 5.
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Master special challenges. If you want an extra challenge,
take on boss battles at the end of more difficult chapters.
Summarize those ideas you're struggling with, explain them in
your own words, and discuss themwith a friend for an extra 30
XP. This will help solidify your
understanding, level up your knowledge, and get you extra
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juicy points. Reading shouldn't be a chore.
With book quest, you can turn those difficult reads into
thrilling adventures. Every book comes.
No, every book becomes an exciting new quest where you
grow stronger, smarter, and morecurious with each level you
conquer. Whether you're tackling classic
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literature, dense academic texts, or complex self help
guides, Book Quest helps you focus on the purpose of reading
to learn, grow, and enrich your life while making it a fun,
gamified experience. The only one I didn't get.
Well, there were two things I didn't get the boss level.
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The other thing I didn't get wasis this page by page?
Well, is it or this book by book?
But the thing I really liked? Was when you said dance
philosophy book? I am excited to read A Dent, a
book on dance philosophy by the Just Dance Crap, Just Dance.
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I've LED you on, I said. Dent.
We're not the only one to leave me on.
I leave myself on. OK, so let me break it down for
you. The whole page to XP thing is
kind of convoluted and I wanted I wanted to run past it because
I could have spent a lot of timeon it.
Say you have a 500 page book that you know has a lot of
content in it, but it's 500 pages so maybe.
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I get the XP. Each page is worth one XP, but
if there's a 50 page book but a lot of people are recommending
it to you and you know it's going to really change your life
so it's only 50 pages, each pageis worth a lot more points.
That's why my point system confuses you so much, because
one day I'll be basing on like 60 points, 100 points, other
days like 1.2 points. It's like it's just whatever
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gets you to the what the level of the completion is and whoever
gets there first. And then also the boss fight is
when you take a concept that you're struggling with and
explain it to another person. Oh, it's the mind to action
part. Yeah, summarize complex ideas,
explain them in your own words, and discuss them with a friend
for an extra 30 XP. Putting the knowledge, putting
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the putting the learning to the test, Putting the knowledge to
power by knowledge being applied.
Do you have an out for or like asolution when you're reading the
book and you have mental fog or a motivation dip or you just
stop wanting to? That's more of your psyche.
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That's more gamifying focus, gamifying concentration.
This is focused on the book itself and on learning and
trying. I put some motivation in there
with the points being redeemed for rewards, but I am not a
therapist and I don't want to focus too much on that.
I know, shocking. I didn't want to put too much
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into that because I wanted to focus more on the journey of
reading endless on the nitty gritty of your day-to-day life
because you could be so many different things that affect
your focus. And I didn't want to try to have
a one size fit doll because there's.
Nothing like that, true. And now, guys, it's time for a
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pop quiz. At this point in the episode, I
get The Gamer and the Nerd to try to guess from my artistic
mind what a true fact is and what the rest is just.
And So what we're going to do iswe're going to give you the
chance to participate in this vote.
I'm going to ask a question. I'm going to give you various
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answers and what they could possibly be.
And you are going to Scroll downon Spotify.
Definitely. You can only do this on Spotify.
If you're watching this on YouTube and stuff, I'm sorry.
Just write down your answer and submit an e-mail to gamify this
podcast and say I won. Or something we'll.
Send her a cookie. You can comment in the YouTube
comments section too. You don't have to e-mail us.
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Only e-mail us. I don't see your comments
that's. Because no one freaking caught
I'm. All right, and here is the quiz.
Are you guys ready? Yeah.
What is the oldest book that hasbeen found?
Is it a The Grass Mummy book, B The Dead Sea Scrolls or C The
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Epic of Gilgamesh? Should we enter in the game of
fire chat? Yes, do that.
Set example by B example, but also I will want to hear well,
actually, oh oh, you're talking about the chat on Discord over
here. Yeah, just so that we don't talk
over each other and take each other's answers.
What was number A? A was yeah like a Graz mummy
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book, B the Dead Sea Scrolls, and C is the Epic of Gilgamesh.
How many points are we wagering for this?
A point? A singular point. 321 See, The
Epic of Gilgamesh is both of your guesses, and it is
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incorrect. Oh.
Is this the Mummy book? It's the mummy book.
So actually guys, it was a trickquestion.
I listed 2 scrolls and one book.Book being something that's
bound. I think people are going to hate
me for this. People are going to hate me for
this. So this is the oldest found
book. Before this we didn't have like
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that form of book. They were like scrolls and stuff
like that. But the oldest found book, book
as we think of a book bound withpages.
Was this mummy book written by apparently a mummy or for a
mummy? Yes, I like the interpretation
that the Mummy wrote the book. Random trivia, this is also the
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oldest the The Grouse Mummy bookis one of the oldest examples of
defined margins and like formatting.
It's one of the oldest examples of margins and formatting and
being bound like it. This was like very professional.
So do you know why they did margins?
It was protection just so that it.
Didn't bleed out the edges well.You got rats, you got fire, you
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got weathering, you got, you gotlike people flipping the pages.
You're going to destroy the paper.
After a while, they cared a lot about preserving it.
So it was like we're just going to put a buffer in between the
information and the world, kind of.
Samuel, if you're clued out, margin is the white space where
letters aren't on a page. Right, I thought he was talking
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about columns for some reason, which is the space between the
margins where the words are. This is the first time words.
So I feel like Puzzles doing a really good job at looking ahead
to the next round, each and eachof these levels and what he's
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done, which is great, but also makes me feel bad for them him
because he could be winning so many more points on those next
level. I really focused on purpose,
huh? I really did.
I did. You did.
You just focused on the wrong things.
The wrong thing? So here's the thing, I would
excuse Kenneth Copeland's behavior if he was like on coke,
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but I really don't. I honestly don't think he would
do drugs. So I just don't know how to.
I just don't know how to explainhis behavior.
Maybe he would, maybe he would, maybe he would do drugs like
coke and be like this is the work of the Lord.
OK guys, for this final level, there's going to be a big
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purpose on a big focus on something else.
So we talked about purpose. That's what and why why you want
to do this, why you want to get to this book thing.
We talked about fun dance philosophy books sound really
fun and puzzle got 300 points for that.
Now we're going to talk about issues, issues that I have,
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issues that you have, issues that we have that make it very
difficult to read books. It there's dyslexia, there's
distractions, and there's dystopia, the ending of the
world as we know it right now outside it really makes it
difficult to read books. Let's get into that.
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Let's get into that dyslexia, distractions, dystopia by
showing me how we can become more empowered to fight those
things. Give us the power to read these
books, to read these words, to obtain this knowledge, to do it
well. Help me read a book more
powerfully. Puzzle the boss level thing.
I mean, that was so good. I forgot that you literally do
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this every time you host. Fun purpose and power of game.
Purpose on power. On purpose power, on purpose
power. You've hosted like 7 episodes of
this point. I always forget too, and I'm
today I'm like, how am I going to do this?
How am I going to break up theserounds?
But I know what I can do. So the purpose of this one is
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finding solutions to hurdles. That's a good idea.
Is that what the OK I'm? Gonna give you guys a number of
minutes. I asked him what it was and he's
like, oh, that's a good idea. OK, I'm sorry.
I can't. I can't Go tell me one more
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time. What?
What? What's being powered?
What? What is this?
Well, just keep in mind the dyslexia, distraction and
dystopia are, as Sean said, hurdles.
But the real focus here, we wantpower.
We want power and we want power.It could be internal power, a
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no, no, no, a power up. It could be an external power, a
boost, and it could be a lastingpower, a buff.
We might want all of those. Can you remind me the difference
between boost and buff? A boost is like an energy drink.
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No, no, no, sorry. A boost is like when you hit the
accelerator in your car, or whensomebody pushes you forward.
Or it's it's an external force that affects you in the moment.
No. Is that different from a power
up? It's different.
From a power up, because a powerup is an internal force that
helps you on the inside, like anenergy drink or coffee or, or or
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something like that. Something that makes changes who
you are for a minute. A boost is something that
changes how you are for a minute, and a buff is something
that changes who and how you are.
All right, who's ready? I can go.
OK. Sean, what is it?
Your eyes skip words and reread the same sentence over and over.
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Your stomach growls because you forgot to eat.
You die because you didn't thinkyou were worthy of life.
Have you had these problems while reading your favorite
book? If you have, you're not alone.
Tackling a book requires a constant battle with yourself.
With Boss Fight, you can use this book as the end bill to
smash your problems. Every chapter is a level.
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At the end of every chapter you have a rest stop, which you use
to look back, look forward, takea moment and glory in your
victory over your own incompetence.
You have 3 mental fog cookies for each chapter, which you used
to take a break in the middle and refocus.
This is like Running Gun, but you're looking for mental,
emotional, spiritual, and physical problems within
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yourself that you haven't spent a lot of time trying to fix.
Take time to understand your dyslexia, practice pushing past
your focus problems, allow yourself to feel freely, and
make sure you're well fed while you're exploring the hurdles you
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need to overcome to be a more healthy person.
Challenging perspectives gives you a mental booster, giving you
something to think about for a while.
Allowing yourself to feel freelyabout the content of the book
gives you an emotional power up and gives you practice at
understanding yourself as you gothroughout your daily life.
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This is boss battle. Sorry, boss fight where the boss
is you and you're looking for weak points to attack your own
unhealth. That's pretty good, Sean.
Thank you. Not going to lie.
Michael, I do. I have to say I'm heavily
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inspired by your style of presenting.
Thank you. That was a lot of where that
came from because you are prettyconsistently very good at making
it interesting, so. Here's the thing, I don't have a
name for this round. It's just called Power Ups.
Oh no, you've hit the Valley of Distraction.
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You got tangled in the dyslexia dunes or you stumbled into this.
Did sorry end it? End it all.
Sorry, there's the guy that's puzzle.
I'm enjoying it. Oh no, you've hit the Valley of
Distraction, got tangled in the Dyslexia Dunes, or stumbled into
the dystopian depths. Never fear adventurer, it's time
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to summon your boosts, buffs andpower ups.
So let's start out with power ups.
These are the external. We've got 2 power ups for you,
the Focus Elixir and the Speed boots.
Boots. Not boost boots.
The Focus Elixir is activating ashort burst of focus within a 15
to 20 minute reading Sprint. Eliminate all distractions.
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Put your phone in a different room.
Tell everyone to leave you A room.
Alone. Alone.
Put your phone in a different room, tell everyone to leave you
alone. Find a cozy spot and set a timer
or an extra XP for completing each Sprint.
Afterwards, take a recharge or maybe be done with the day
because that might have hit yourdaily goal.
Speed Boots Feeling bogged down?Equip the speed boots, skim
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points and scan for main ideas. Look for bold text and or pair
your reading with an audio book.This will help you speed through
it and maintain momentum withoutgetting stuck in the quicksand
of dense text. Dense, not dance.
Same old dense. I didn't say dance.
Again, it's not dance text, it'sdense boosts.
These are external. We got the Mindful Mirror and
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the Clarity charm. The Mindful mirror is when your
thoughts are drifting and this boost is to bring them back.
Take deep breaths, close your eyes and refocus.
Repeat key phrases to ground your attention.
This is like playing look aroundyou when you're having trouble
reading. This helps you identify
distractions and gently steer your mind back on course, making
each reading session more effective.
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And then the Clarity charm. Facing a wall of complex ideas,
the Clarity Charm can light the way.
Use highlighters, digital tools,or annotations to untangle
tricky passages. Visual aids like diagrams and
mind maps can really help you get through those dense parts of
text, making even the hardest material clear and easy to
understand. And then we got a buff.
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We got one buff because I can't really think of many permanent
upgrades to reading, but I've got one and this one's pretty
good. This is a permanent buff that
will forever change the way you read, so listen closely.
Inside aura. This buff represents a long term
upgrade, a permanent upgrade with regular practice.
Build a habit of reading summaries before diving into
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chapters. This will give you a clear road
map of the content ahead. Over time, this habit will help
you digest complex books more easily, giving you a permanent
advantage when approaching new material.
So equip your Focus Elixir Slip on your Speed Boots and Harmony,
but I'm So equip your Focus Elixir Slip on your Speed Boots
and harness the Mindful Mirror and Clarity Charm to navigate
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any challenge. Every page turned brings you
closer to mastering the text, earning points and levelling up
to become a master reader. I don't know how you did it, but
that was actually pretty good. Oh no, I had an article.
I had a source I was going to reference.
Oh, no puzzle. You did a really, really good
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job following the assignment andyou both did a really good job
with each of your games. Sean, the problem I have with
this one, you said look for problems.
You said try to understand whichthese are absolutely power ups,
but it's not a power up that I can place.
It's more like these are going to help, these are going to
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solve the problem. You do get your 40 points for
that one, but you don't get anything else.
Oh, that was so savage. The main thing was because I
feel in a way you didn't really tell me how, and that that's one
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of the hard things about this judging system is I would need
you to tell me how to look for those problems or how to try to
understand. Puzzle was specific on the power
ups because he knows that what I'm looking for is something
outside of yourself, something inside that you can put inside
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yourself to change you. I was getting to specifics but I
ran out of time. You still got your 40 points and
a big pat on the back from me because I really liked that you
were talking about fighting yourself and going after
yourself as the boss battle and understanding what the hurdles
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are so that you can overcome them.
My main idea was that you are using the book as a place to get
power ups for your life. Yes, this was a very close game.
Oh, round, not round one. But in our early talk we got you
guys some points. I was going to say Sean had done
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the best because I was asking for a gamification in your life
and I wouldn't hear like if we've actually been playing
these games. And Sean went right into it with
two answers. And I gave him points for that.
And Puzzle was talking about theproblems he was having.
And I didn't realize that he wastalking about a game he was
coming up with as a result of that.
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So he actually won that, got most points on that because it
was cool. He brought something new in and
another game and he was sharing that with us, something that he
was doing for school and all that.
But when it came down to the actual games, Sean one round
one, Sean one round two, and Puzzle, Puzzle one round 3,
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which really redeemed him because at the end Puzzle had
166 points and Sean had 149 points.
Those are the biggest numbers I've ever heard in my whole
life. Man, I was really confident in
that last one. Sorry, I'm feeling freely.
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I am disappointed. Oh, you did really good.
Sean, if it makes you feel any better, you hosted episode 10.
I get to host episode 20. So maybe down the road Samuel
will host episode 30. We'll see.
Oh yeah, but. Join us next week when I host
Episode 20, Game of Thought. Oh, I'm the host.
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You're not the host yet. Puzzle.
I know I was telling them to come back when I host for
episode 20. Well, guys, thank you for coming
today and listening to us Bramble Bramble about books and
I'm finally feel ready to read abook.
Now I'm going to follow puzzles instructions with a little bit
of tidbits from Sean. Go into your own life and start
playing some games. Take those boring parts of your
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life, like reading a book or those things you need to do,
those things you need to pick up, do them.
That's what we're here to do. Make him at least tolerable.
You can follow puzzle on puzzle MTM on YouTube and twitch and
other sorts of places. You can follow Sean on 10 tiny
potatoes right here. 10 tiny potato OSI believe you can
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follow me on Moser meadows records on YouTube, Moser
meadows records on TikTok. You can follow me on Instagram
at CMO Clause Tuner or just don't.
Hey, don't understand yourself. This is what we always like to
say at the end of these episodesbecause of the game is over game
of. Five this game game game over.
(51:36):
Game, we say it long or short. We say it long or should we say
it short? Do you think short?
Was that bad? I think short is more like boom.
Game over.
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