Exploring Creativity with a gamer.

Today I was in Oslo, Norway, and had the privilege to share the stage with Joachim Haraldsen , aka “Noobwork”, of Heroic Group.

Noobwork has more than 10 million views on his youtube channel, which is just amazing when you consider that the channel is in Norwegian and Norway only has 5 million people… (!)

He is now building one of the world’s leading e-game companies in Heroic.

I asked him about how playing computer games can help with developing one's creativity.

He said:

“In gaming you can choose your own identity; you can choose who or what you want to be.?

And you have multiple of these identities and switch between them.”

So how does that help develop creativity?

According to Noobwork:

“Every time you enter into a new identity your brain gives you a new perspective and new perspectives trigger your creativity.”

I love that.

Be inspired by gamers.

Get more perspective!

Develop multiple identities. There is not “one world” - there are unlimited number of worlds for you to live in (both in the physical world and the digital world).

Thank you Joachim for giving me that perspective.

Which new identity could you embrace?

Fredrik Haren - The Creativity Explorer.

(Ps. About this newsletter.

Since LinkedIn only allows you to have one newsletter I have decided to rebrand my Linkedin newsletter to "The Creativity Explorer" (from "The Creativity Suite") so that I can publish a wider range of posts on different aspects of creativity. I will continue to publish some episodes of The Creativity Suite here, but also post other insights around creativity that I have picked up as I travel the world to learn about human creativity. Follow this newsletter to be inspired by creative people from around the world to help you broaden your own understanding of creativity. )