When you come back to a familiar construct after you have been away or the normal flow has been disrupted, how do you process the return to form? What does the return make you want to do? How does it work for others?

 In Part 2, the guys talk about how a game is really an interactive story, and riff on how basic strategies apply into our daily lives. We ourselves are playing games all the time, whether we realize it or not. It's all just a game...

A riff on one out most popular episodes, we talk about how video games work. In Part 1, Josh gives a flyover history of how video games came to be today and begins to touch on how game strategy affects daily life. Isn't everything just a big game?

Related episodes:

The Lessons of Zelda

https://podcast.curiositycontinuum.com/e/the-lessons-of-zelda/

Saving the Princess (?)

https://podcast.curiositycontinuum.com/e/saving-the-princess/

We are solidly in the 21st century, living with the realities of 20th century learning constructs. What skills are needed to thrive in a knowledge economy in this era?

Consider these attributes:

How do you define something by what it is not? Focusing this way tunes you into the outcomes rather than the possibilities. Why would this be useful?

Did you receive proper validation as you grew? Where are you looking for that high fidelity feedback loop? How does it impact your life? What does it all mean? Whose words are big in your ears and why?

Do you know how to ask the right questions? Have you become more or less curious as you age? If you don't ask questions, and you already know everything there is to know, please contact us, and you would know how to reach us (ha!). Does your pride stop you from asking?

Simon Sinek, author of Start With Why, learns a lot by asking questions.

Who is someone that complements you well, and you, them? How does trust factor into the level of collaboration? When has a partnership gone sideways, and why did it go that way?

First impressions matter. But, do our base set of assumptions about people need to be examined?

Why don't we take the time to assess and care for yourself unless forced to do so by circumstance? It's never too late to start somewhere, right now.