Attitude/Mindset shift enough or does there need to be more? Hopeless Optimism!

Thinking about this transforming work into a game bizness.

Is a simple attitude shift enough?

If you get up each day and say I am going to play, would that be enough to make it more engaging?

If you went into work each with the attitude that it was a game and you got to make moves rather than perform tasks, what would be the effect?

I think this shift, this simple shift could have an enormous benefit for me and probably a few others like me.

In my life, I am most ineffective when I am procrastinating or worrying about things.  I put all my energy into these thoughts rather than getting things done. 

For instance,
Debts and student loans and yada yada.  In the past I have avoided them because they seemed so monumental and daunting.  However, if I turn my debts into a game of monopoly, they could be handled.  If I looked at my finances like a game, I could have fun trying to get the lowest interest rates, making the best moves to handle these.

I talked about the TED talk of how gaming could change the world in a previous blog.  The speaker mentioned while playing games, gamers have HOPELESS OPTIMISM.  They have the belief that they can have an actual effect on the game.   Their mind is completely engaged in problem solving.

How do we encourage that hopeless optimism in our life?

The author of Icarus Deception also talked about this principal of life as a game and becoming a player. And as another layer, he discussed looking at life as being an infinite game rather than finite. 

With a finite game, there is stress and pressure and winners and losers.  In an infinite game, the playing is the goal.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.

Carl Jung
Swiss psychoanalyst
1875–1961