Inside Habitica – a Tool That Turns Habit-Building Into a Video Game (Ep. 56)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Habits are easier to build when you use video game elements to increase your motivation! That's exactly what HabitRPG helps you do, and in this episode, I talk with co-founders Siena Leslie and Vicky Hsu to learn more about the app's origins. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: HabitRPG Join the CIG guild! How I turned HabitRPG into a workout tracker Follow Vicky on Twitter Follow Siena on Twitter The Power of Habit (one of my essential reads for students) Browser Quest Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:40.0	episode of the College Info Geek
0:42.0	Podcast. This is a show that is aimed at helping
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0:49.1	College Emphogique newsletter you will know three things. Number one, members of the newsletter get a
0:54.3	free book that I wrote on getting better grades and you can get that and get on the
0:58.0	newsletter over at college infogeek.com slash book. The book's over a hundred pages I think you'll find it really useful. I worked really hard in it. So hopefully you enjoy it if you have already read it. Hopefully you did enjoy it. And the second thing you will know if you are on the newsletter is Thursdays you get a newsletter
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1:22.1	get a special email that is full of extra tips that are not on the site
1:27.0	and one of the early emails that comes out talks about the three factors I think are most important in your life for being successful.
1:35.1	Number one your health obviously your body is the kind of game that game piece that
1:39.6	you played at the game of life with as I talk about, goal setting, having a direction, and your habits.
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