If You Want to Save the Earth, Think Like a Game Designer, Jesse Schell PhD Ep20

<h3><strong>If you want to save the Earth, you need to think like a game&nbsp;designer.&nbsp;</strong></h3> <p><strong>In this episode, I sat down with Jesse Schell, author of the canonical game design textbook, </strong><em><strong>The Art of Game Design, </strong></em><strong>and</strong><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>asked him how he would go about saving the planet as a game designer. Jesse is a Distinguished Professor of Experience Design at Carnegie Mellon University and the CEO of Schell Games.</strong></p> <p>Think about these qualities :  peak motivation, obsessive focus, a drive to win, life-long mastery of a complex skill, desire for epic planetary-wide quests — it all sounds like a pretty good skill set to save our <em>real</em> planet, right?&nbsp;</p> <p>Manifesting these emotions listed above is the craft that game designers specialize in. &nbsp;People who specialize in game design are a treasure-trove of design-thinking insight about how to get people into a state of obsessive flow, hack into human happiness, and pique the reward system of the brain.</p> <h4><strong>I love Jesse’s book </strong><em><strong>The Art of Game Design</strong></em><strong> because when I read it a few years ago, I asked myself “how would l apply all this game design thinking to climate change, plastic waste, or eating less meat”? &nbsp;Reading a game design textbook through the eyes of an environmentalist opened my imagination when thinking of ideas for environmental change, in a way that nothing else really has.</strong></h4> <p><br></p> <p>Jesse joined us for our monthly <a href="//katiepatrick.com/fitbit"><em>Fitbit for the Planet</em> video hangout</a> for this episode.</p> <p>Sign up to join the live monthly group calls at <a href="http://katiepatrick.com/fitbit">katiepatrick.com/fitbit</a>.</p> <p><strong>Read the blog article about this episode.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Follow Jesse Schell</strong></p> <p><a href="https://amzn.to/3hrZOsP">Get a copy of <em>The Art of Game Design</em> on Amazon</a><