(2013-08-28) Life Design Needs A Book Of Lenses Just Like The One Game Design Has

Life Design needs a book of lenses, just like the one Game Design has. Jesse Schell wrote The Art of Game Design and in it he says “Game design is the act of deciding what a game should be.”

“Everything is about everything.” Even though I am not a game designer, everything in the book seems to apply to some aspect of my life. (intertwingled)

I wrote to Jesse: It feels like I can convert your book into a handbook for life by simply doing a global search and replace of “game” with “life.”
So, your new book becomes The Art of Life Design.
Hence, “Life design is the act of deciding what a life should be.” (lifestyle design)

We’ll need a new word to replace “player” to refer to both you and the people you interact with in your life. For now, I’m going to coin a new definition of the word “lifer’ to mean someone who is committed to playing this game we call life for the duration.

(Are you saying everyone is a lifer and it sure would be a shame to reach the end and say, ‘Boy, that was no fun.’)