Can having fun change behaviour?
Of course it can!
Just look at this video…
By making it more fun to use the stairs the number of people choosing the stairs over the escalator increased by 66%.
How can you make boring routines more fun?
From rolighetsteorin.se
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John Neese loves soda pops and seems to love everyone who does so. In my last post I asked you – Are you doing what you love? – thinking about Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address from 2005. In this post I give you a man who REALLY loves his job and the products he’s selling.
Just watch his face!
Got to love this! 
Video produced by the great guys at CHOW
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My son, Adam, is a little over 5 years old. Those thing, “a little over” is very important in that age. I’m just “a little over” thirty just like my wife is 29-ish. Still.
Anyway… Adam likes to create. Mostly small machines and gadgets out of LEGO, rubberbands, screws or just about anything he can lay his hands on. But yesterday, the thing of the day was – tattoos. Since his mum and dad had made it clear that a 5-year old can’t get real tatoos he had to come up with something else. And when I looked the other way, he did.
- Dad, look! I got tattoos! On both my arms!
I turned around and started to laugh out loud. This little guy figured out that getting rid of ink or coulor pencils on his arms was going to be too difficult so instead of drawing on his arms, he cut out small 4×4 cm paper squares and draw colourful tattoos on them and – glued (!) – them to his arms. You gotta love that creativity!
The happy daddy hugged him and quickly turned into boring daddy and said:
- That glue is going to itch in a little while…
Adam then quickly replied:
- Ok, I use tape then.
That boy will suffer for his art…
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A source of great inspiration to me is a multitalented friend I have, Fredrik. He’s a life coach, hypnotherapist, writer, triathlete, husband and father. Among other things. So it wasn’t a very big shock for us – his friends – when he announced he was taking up triathlon. He’s been training hard as long as I’ve known him and long before that as well.
But when he started to talk about things like “qualifying for the world championships” and “IronMan” he really got our attention. This wasn’t just a test to see if triathlon was fun anymore. This was the real thing – Fredrik’s test of Fredrik.
We cheered him on and hoped everything would turn out well for him. I always thought it would, but when you see clips from IronMan’s on TV and YouTube you realize that this is really tough! You just can’t help wondering, “what if….”
It wasn’t until I saw a YouTube-clip of a Chinese marathon where two competitors were staggering towards the finishing line and they were barely conscious. Both of them collapsed several times but one of them got up again.
The other one couldn’t get up, but was determined not to quit the race only a few meters away from his goal. So he started to crawl! And by that he beat the other guy. There’s more than one way to do things!
Then I knew… I didn’t have to worry for Fredrik.
Given the creative person he is, Fredrik would find a way and if he’ll have to – he would crawl not only during the swimming but during the running part as well.
Everything went just great and he’s completed a number of races since then.
Your accomplishments, on and off the race tracks, makes us very proud, Fredrik! Keep on!
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I was taking the commuter train to work this morning and when I jumped off at Stockholm Central Station, so did a million (or so) other people. A long queue started to build up by the stairs to get off the platform and down into the tunnel where you can switch trains. Next to us was an escalator going up to the platform. Only three boys, around 16 years old, stood by and watched the crowd.
- Come on, lets run down the escalator!, said one of them.
People started looking at them and a few murmurs came from the crowd.
The first boy worked his way down the empty escalator, going the opposite direction, up to the platform. He had to run a bit to not end up on the platform again but finally he made it down and as soon as the two other boys heard him laugh they set of as well.
- Idiots!
- Morons!
Many in the crowd looked angrily at the running, laughing boys as they reached the bottom of the escalator and made their way in to the tunnel we all were trying to get to.
I started to smile as I realized that sometimes, going the opposite direction, against the stream, can not only be very fun. It can be a way to success and you reaching your goals as well.
Well done boys!
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