Day 1
Part 2 of manyThe conference gathering started around 9 am with many familiar faces all around the place. Glad to see Sylvester Arnab, An Coppens, Michael Wu (finally!) and Alex Chalkias (whom I had only met by facebook).
So after a late arrival we all got setup and receive a great welcome from our very own Pete Jenkins! After a couple of short explanations around where the bathrooms were and how to use the conference app Pete left the floor for someone who was, until then, a mystery to me.
It’s really awesome when you are met with ideas that have been around your head for some time. That’s how the #gamification community feels when we all meet up. At least those were the words from most of the experts in the conference.
Jeff Gomez
The opening keynote was one of the most amazing concepts we all have agreed on. Jeff Gomez presented us with an idea we all must work together to accomplish. The hero’s journey is no longer serving us. Opening concept for all. Great present for “The hero’s journey” theme of the conference.
The collective journey is what we must be working towards to. It’s not a matter of one person saving everybody else but, everyone working together to accomplish and overcome any challenge.
It matches with every problem the world is going through. We keep believing that one great person should come and save us all when in reality we must save ourselves.
No need for terrible.trauma
Narrative can follow a cause@jeff_gomez#gamification #GamificationEurope— Bernardo Letayf (@bletayf) November 28, 2017
You can follow my tweets on the talk in this link
I asked a question to Jeff: “What happens when everyone is special? Then no one is special?”
His answer was even better: We are all special but, it’s no longer about ONE individual but what we can accomplish all together.
My teachings from this talk is simple: The more people that work together, the greater and better the outcome will always be.
My thoughts on my own question are that when we are all special, unless we clear our idea of being the hero and the protagonist of the story, we will keep thinking that one person must be “better” than the rest and we must separate is from the crowd somehow, when, in reality, we should be working on making the WHOLE crowd special.
Oh… it’s not even 11 am at this point.
Bernardo Letayf
M.B.O. (Mind Behind the Operation)
6th position in the Gamification Gurus Power 100!
Gamification Keynote Speaker & the mind behind the operation @bluerabbit, a gamification platform for education.
Developed three frameworks to teach/learn how to create gamification systems and build gamified content
Declared a world wide war on grades.