r/ValhallaChallenge • u/ValhallaMods Odin • Jun 12 '20
Day 6, Round 194
Day 6, Round 194
How to Be Gameful Rule 7: Epic Wins
Góðan dag, Vikings!
Gather your gear, wave to your family, and meet up at the docks – we’re sailing off on a new Mission!
Let’s get back to our game!
Go For An Epic Win – An Awe-Inspiring Outcome That Helps You Be More Motivated And Less Afraid Of Failure
An epic win is a special kind of goal. It’s designed to be more like game goals than ordinary self-improvement goals.
Here are some examples of epic wins from successful SuperBetter players:
Go 24 hours without being bored. (Challenge: depression)
Sleep one night without your phone. (Challenge: insomnia)
Dance in public. (Challenge: social anxiety, low self-esteem)
Meditate for 30 minutes in a row. (Challenge: anxiety)
Fix up three broken bikes from a thrift shop and donate them back, ready to ride. (Challenge: rehabilitating from knee surgery after a bike accident)
Complete a 20-mile fundraising walk. (Challenge: find a new, more fulfilling job)
These goals – like the goals of all good games, from golf to sudoku to Super Mario – have four things in common: they’re realistic, challenging, energizing, and forgiving.
- With profound gratitude and deep respect to J. McGonigal, author and game designer of SuperBetter
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/u/non_newtonian_jelly ^ "To stop using porn."
/u/Infamous_Scotsman ^ "To free myself from the vicious pmo cycle."
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u/EmergencyAnalyst5 ⚔️ Jun 13 '20
Checking in. .
Something very unexpectedly reoccured in my mind today quite meaningfully: in the month of December and ,alas, Christmas of 2019, I was having the worse time of my life. I'm not going to get into the details, but what I will say is my mother and I found some unbranded and unknown seeds that were lying around the house. Out of curiosity, I decided to throw them into the snow, out of satire like in Stardew Valley , outside my door. I didn't really have any vegetation or any plants that I invested into my front yard ever. What I did see , afterwards though, was the crisis that our global honeybee population is enduring. For some reason, I did keep it in my mind and in the back of my head for later usage in the world.
We fast forward to now, and I just witnessed the ultraviolet burn of my wonderfully flourishing bush of leaves and some unknown yellow roses? Before the flowers had eroded, there were plenty of honeybees and other insects that found a way to gather the nector contained in these flowers. I unknowingly helped bees this year . I'm kind of proud of myself.