How vigilant are you?
You ever notice a cool cafe you must have passed by a million times?
It’s natural to habituate to familiar spaces.
Easy hack for bypassing blinders, experiment with vigilance games.
Here are 5 games to re-master awareness:
You’re a brilliant baddie who just pulled off a clever heist. You’ve got the bag of loot in your pocket. You can hear the sirens. The cops are getting close.
What are your exit strategies? Where are the best places to hide yourself or your riches?
Where’s Waldo showed us that we have the ability to scan the complexity of our surroundings to uncover what’s important to us. What do you want to notice in all the chaos?
Go on a walk in search for evidence of joy, luck, bliss, beauty, compassion…
Look into your crystal ball. Make a list of predictions of what you’ll witness when you people watch today.
Is it a sunny summer day? I bet someone’s gonna wince at an incoming wasp. Snow outside? How quick until you see someone slip?
Deciding how people might die may not be a pretty job, but someone’s got to do it and you’ve been assigned as substitute soul reaper for the day.
Your job: look around you and figure out all the creative ways your current location can kill.
The goal of this game is to believe that the world has all the answers we seek.
Ask a question. Look around for a sign.
If you’re wondering if you’re going to fall in love this year and you look up and find a cloud shaped like a broken heart, then 😬