30 Days Of Geek – Losing is Fun!

Well, it’s been roughly a month and a week since I wrote Focus, and once again I’ve “failed” and “lost” at what I planned to do this month.

Oh well.

The interesting mindset that arrises from the holistic life as a game approach, is that failure is just as valuable and worthy as success; by losing we strengthen and sharpen our skills to handle unexpected situations.

It’s the difference between being frustrated and put under pressure, and having fun while facing an appropriate challenge and level of resistance.

And it does sound a little flip, and that I haven’t “learnt my lesson” – but you don’t learn a lesson out of beating yourself up over things, you learn by trial and error and by properly debreifing.

So, what went wrong? Well, I didn’t pre-write content. I didn’t sit down when I had time, and knock out a bunch of entries and then time them to go up on the right day. I was busy focusing on my answering of the questions, not thinking in the sense that the questions were a reason to interact daily with other people. And, I did it like a newbie in an MMO – playing alone together; and even worse, without using the chat channels between participants. So, not only did I lose the stated goal of the game, I lost the metagame of playing to the fullest.

Ultimately, it’s this reflection that is key to helping win next time. Not that I have to, but because I can.

So, what I’m doing in May is working off a weekly schedule, since that’s a time period I can keep in check.

Next Tuesday I’ll be on “Take It From Us”, a community radio show about recovery from mental health issues on Planet FM. They do podcasting of the show, so I’ll get a link or even a good copy of that (they’ve got a bit of a horrid Flash Interface) when it comes around; otherwise if you want to listen to me live during the middle of the day, you can totally search up the FM frequency and everything yourself.

And then otherwise, I’ll be attending a few entrepreneurial events and being on the prowl for an opportunity I can sink my teeth into; got a few proposals on the boil so to speak, and some interesting potential jobs.

So yes, sorry my fellow geeks that I lost the game (by the way, you just accidentally “the game”)

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