May 12, 2026
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Gamify Your Life: Gamification Apps for Self-Improvement

Kevin Shane64 mins

More and more businesses are employing gamification to get customers interested in their products and services. Schools are looking to startups like Amplify to encourage their students to be more engaged in learning, inside and outside of school. The quantified self movement has even evolved to start measuring your brainwaves. Everywhere you look, the world is turning to games to improve participation and morale. Could there be real use for these ideas into your everyday life? These two new companies are saying yes, you can gamify your life.

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How to Gamify Your Life with Jon Guerrera

Ivan Kuo12 mins

The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every Thursday at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT. Join us and have all of your gamification questions answered by these experts.

This past week’s guest was lifehacker and GSummit speaker, Jon Guerrera! Jon has been heavily involved with gamifying his goals to find success and actually gamified his way to a job at Google. Watch the interview to find out:

 

  • Why Jon started to gamify his approach
  • How to effectively choose motivating rewards for yourself
  • If cheating yourself is a problem
  • What kind of people these systems are appropriate for
  • Where you should focus gamification in your goals
Check out the video below for the full interview.



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Be sure to catch this week’s episode featuring game designer Tadhg Kelly and learn about gamification from the game designer’s point of view.

You can now catch the Gamification Revolution every Thursday at 1PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT.

 

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