Oh my God! Duh! How bloody obvious!
While working on some orienteering roles that can help people understand my work better from their current perspective as the primary “role” they’re current playing in life (e.g., gamer, growth coach, etc), I realized something stupidly obvious.
I think I’m overcomplicating the approach to my work because I’m trying to encapsulate the understanding as a whole, right from the very start.
But that’s the complete opposite of what I should be doing because the explanation of my work should just be a starting point for the exploration of it which I’m still in the process of.
Remember my work should not be communicated as, “I’m an expert in knowing everything there is to know about growth and development in life. I have all the answers here.”
It should be communicated as, “I’m noticing these similarities between role-playing games and growth and development, so much so that I’m asking the question, ‘What if life is a role-playing game?’ And this space is where I explore that question as a quest.”
So when I explain to a gamer how quests embody questioning your assumptions and beliefs in life, I should simply be explaining this aspect of growth and development in a language a gamer can understand. And I should probably provide just a few examples of this that they themselves may have already experienced in their own lives.
That’s it.
The same thing would apply to explaining to a growth coach how questioning our assumptions and beliefs is the same thing as undertaking a quest in a MMORPG. I explain what a quest is within a MMORPG but using a language a growth coach would understand. And again I could provide some examples.
I’m still not sure how this would work yet in terms of pages and linking things on my site but this is really the core of what I should be doing.
In other words, it should just be basic explanations of what these things embody and mean, with the rest of my writings being an ongoing exploration of what these things mean in greater detail.
I mean this is effectively how this all started in the first place.
I was seeing certain keywords within quotes everywhere (e.g., Helen Keller’s “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing”) and they were like shouting out to me, as though they wanted me to see a deeper aspect of life below them.
So I just started collecting these quotes and tagging them with the basic meaning of what I thought these keywords meant.
Thus when I click a tag and see a collection of quotes relating to something (e.g., roles), it helps me to be tacitly immersed in the deeper meaning of it without perhaps fully knowing how to articulate it as a whole yet in greater detail.
Again, it’s just a starting point for further exploration.