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movie "Beautiful Life" is re-released in 623 years, and it still earns a lot of tears. Since its premiere in 1997, this movie has won 70 international awards including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film , the European Film Award for Best Picture, and the Cannes Jury Award. It ranked sixth in the Douban movie top 250 rankings, with a score of up to 9.5, making it an absolute classic.
The film tells the story of a Jewish father and son Guido and Joshua being sent to a Nazi concentration camp. The father Guido used his imagination to lie to his son and said that they were in a game. In the end, the father made his son's childlike innocence not hurt, but he died tragically under the Nazi gun.
When I first watched it, I was moved by Guido's deep love for his wife and children, and cried loudly. When I watched the movie again, I realized that besides Guido, there are also games that changed Joshua's fate. In the
movie, Guido told his son Joshua after he arrived at the concentration camp that we were playing games, and as long as we didn’t cry or make a fuss, didn’t think of our mother, and didn’t shout for snacks, we could score. The first person to save up 1,000 points will win the competition, and the prize is Joshua's dream tank. The real little Joshua believed his father's words. He did not cry or make a fuss, and endured the darkness, horror and hunger of the concentration camp.
Why does Joshua just think that he can generate such great strength to overcome difficulties when he is playing games? How did the game change his attitude towards life?
The book I read recently, "Game Changes Life" told me the answer. Ms. Jane McGoniger, the author of this book, is a world-renowned game designer. She suffered a concussion in a car accident in 2009. After that, she often felt forgetful, confused, depressed, and even thought of suicide. Later, she recalled her previous research on games and designed a game for herself to help herself get out of the predicament and regain her life. Because of this unique experience, she wrote this book.
When it comes to games, many people think that games waste time and delay real life. , but in fact, this is a wrong concept. It separates the game from reality. In fact, it is entirely possible for us to apply the ideas in the game to real life to help ourselves live a better life.
What are the specific aspects of the positive power of the game?
- Games can help unlock the ability to control your thinking and feelings
People who play games are highly focused and can stare at the screen intently for several hours, completely forgetting time and ignoring the people around me. I often hear female friends around me complain that my boyfriend is addicted to games and never accompany her.
Why does the game bring such great magic?
This is actually the principle of attention focus control behind it. People's attention is like a spotlight. At any moment, the brain can only process and absorb a limited amount of new information, so people can only focus on one source of information at a time, thus ignoring other sources of information. Game designers cleverly use this principle to attract the attention of gamers.
Obviously, Guido is also a person with game design concept. He knows that games can attract people's attention and knows that his son's favorite thing is a tank, so he cleverly designed a game for his son, listing the rules of the game and the prizes of the game, immersing the children in the game world, ignoring the darkness, pain and hunger of the Nazi concentration camp.
Now this kind of play therapy is also used in patients' treatment and recovery. The above article mentioned that the game designed by Ms. Jane McGoniger, the author of "Game Changes Life", not only helps herself, but also helps countless people who endure illnesses to recover better and regain their love for life.
- game can help better integrate into the team and cultivate teamwork spirit, and at the same time it can also help build connections
There are many cooperative games now, which require team members to cooperate with each other, upgrade and fight monsters together, and cultivate teamwork spirit.The effect will be better when fighting with people close to us, because when we play games, the four types of facial expressions, heart rate, breathing and nerve activity are almost synchronized, and the synchronization of these factors is closely related to the strengthening of empathy and the consolidation of social bonds.
Scientific research shows that two people play any game at the same physical location at the same time will produce the same "psychological fusion" and physical synchronization, thus laying the foundation for establishing a stronger and more positive relationship after the game is over.
When our company was building its team, the leaders especially liked to call on colleagues to play chicken-eating games together. In the game, everyone cooperated with each other, and the relationship between colleagues became more harmonious. In
"Heart-warming offer", Beihang University academic master He Yunchen revealed during the interview that he likes team-based games such as Chicken Eater and Honor of Kings, and even has the reputation of being a small genius in the mid-lane tower defense. 's strong team collaboration ability is what you learned invisibly when you play games. So in programs and daily work, we can often see that He Yunchen often makes up for the missing functions in time, and even make up for the shortcomings of the group.
and In family life, parents and children play games together can enhance the connection between parents and children and improve family social interaction .
- Games can make us better at self-motivation
In the game, we always play heroes, constantly raising prices to fight monsters, overcome various difficulties, and ultimately win, receive honors and rewards. Researchers have found that using games can enhance people's courage and perseverance in real life.
At the end of the movie, Guido kept telling his son Joshua that we had accumulated 940 points, and we were about to reach 1,000 points, and we would soon get the tank. You should be in the iron box and don’t come out. The desire for victory and the yearning for tanks made the young Joshua overcome his fear and stayed quietly in the empty Nazi concentration camp, waiting for the arrival of victory.
The young Joshua finally reaped the tank he had always dreamed of and won the victory of this game .
In the process of Joshua overcoming difficulties, the self-efficacy brought by the game played a huge role. Self-efficacy refers to the belief that you can bring positive changes to your life.
The typical path of self-efficacy: accept goals, put in effort, get feedback from hard work, improve specific skills, continue to work hard, continue to try, and ultimately succeed.
Joshua's motivation to obtain the tank was very strong, and then he worked hard to obey his father's instructions: he did not cry or make a fuss, did not want to mom, and did not shout for snacks. He could learn the changes in the scores from his father every day. These changes in the scores further strengthened his confidence, made him work harder and finally succeed.
In fact, this is the essence of the game, it is about challenging and improving our abilities .
Since the game is so effective, how can we use this advantage to help ourselves live a better life?
- uses the feedback and incentive mechanism of the game to design life and products
Why do most people become addicted to games and can not eat for one day and sleep for three days, while few people are addicted to reading, work, and fitness?
Because human nature is to hope that their actions can be immediately feedback and rewarded and punished in a timely manner, and hope that their tasks will be clear and significant. However, it is obvious that many learning and work cannot make people see the effect immediately, which obviously goes against human nature, so it is difficult for anyone to persevere. In the
movie, Guido uses the game's feedback mechanism to tell Joshua at all times how many points we have accumulated and how far we are from victory.
If we design our lives and products with gamified thinking, the effect will be very different.
In the field of study and life, we can divide our big goals in our study and work into small goals, and then reward ourselves in time for each small goal to achieve, let ourselves see the results of our efforts, and motivate ourselves to continue to persevere. For example, if you want to finish memorizing the words of the postgraduate entrance examination within one month, then you can divide it into memorizing 200 words every day. After memorizing the words every day, you will reward yourself with a chicken leg.
And for example, your family does not like to do housework, you can design a small game to design a cool name for each housework. For example, washing clothes means "summoning clean clothes with magic". Whenever you or your family complete something, record it. Different housework corresponds to different experience values and gold coins. Then after a fixed time, family members can see who completes more. The winner will receive a reward, and the loser will receive punishment.
In the field of product design, in addition to electronic game products, other APPs can bring gamified thinking to the products , such as learning APPs, which can set levels for different learning tasks, win points, and allow learners to continuously upgrade and fight monsters and win the final victory.
brings gamified thinking into work and study, making work and study more interesting .
- Strengthen social attributes with gamified thinking
Games can encourage people to communicate with strangers more than ordinary social software and websites, because everyone is a game player and has more topics of communication. By building a game community together, players have a sense of belonging, more unity, enhance cohesion, and effectively prevent loneliness and alienation.
generally plays a team battle, so in real life, in order to cultivate social attributes, you can establish corresponding interest groups, organize people with the same topics together, and hold various competitions.
For example, establish various communities in the company to help like-minded people get to know each other, communicate with each other, organize competitions regularly, and strengthen interactions.
- Gamified continuous
games can enhance happiness because feedback allows us to recognize ourselves and achieve our goals. We will be happy regardless of the process or the result. We can use this sense of happiness in the game to help ourselves develop the habit of self-discipline.
For example, we can use to formulate a plan and write down several plans that we want to complete most. Then the unit of measurement for each small space is set according to the corresponding plan. For example, staying in the library means three times in the morning, noon and evening, and so on. Finally, we count how much money we earned in one day every night. The setting of this achievement coin is also very subjective and set in combination with the difficulty. Finally, exchange the accumulated achievement coins for real rewards.
At the same time, note: there are rewards to achieve any plan, and there are no penalties if it is not completed.
summary
In the movie "Beautiful Life", Guido used the game to let his son survive the dark moments of the Nazi concentration camp and preserved his son's childlike innocence. Behind this, you can see the positive power of the game: helping to unlock the ability to control one's thoughts and feelings; harmonize our relationships; and make us better at self-motivation.
It is entirely possible for us to apply the game's ideas to real life and realize gamification, mainly starting from the three mechanisms of real-time feedback incentive mechanism, team mechanism and sustainability.
games are not sins. Instead of rejecting games, we should make good use of them and turn our enthusiasm for games into motivation to change our lives.
