#ef12

Edwige Fenech

EF12 Show Notes: This episode is dedicated to Hideo Kojima. See the EF12 Show Notes for details of the dedication, inspirations, references, selected quotes and more.

Hideo Kojima: DEDICATION: Episode EF12 is dedicated to Hideo Kojima, a revolutionary game designer who literally changed the game and whose work defines the gaming industry to this very day. Kojima’s work is characterized by constantly raising the bar and bringing video games to new, unmapped territories.

(EF12) Try, Try Again: While playing the game of life, one mindset is to press ‘Try Again’ until you succeed; the other is to give up and hand your controller to someone else. — The Evolve Faster Podcast (Season One, Episode Ten)

(EF12) Gamelining: There’s a high risk of the game ruining lives and people getting physically addicted. — The Evolve Faster Podcast (Season One, Episode Ten)

(EF12) Hidden In Plain Sight: You have been lied to—The key to life is available to you. — The Evolve Faster Podcast (Season One, Episode Ten)

(EF12) The Clock is Ticking: Your days are numbered—let that alone be the only inspiration you need to live a life of pure satisfaction, one failure at a time. — The Evolve Faster Podcast (Season One, Episode Ten) (EF12)

EF12 (S1-E10): Wired to Fail: Leveling Up in the Game of Life: Infuriated by the risk-averse approach of his company, Vihaan Raid decides to design his latest game on his own. A widely renowned game developer known to the gaming world as “Koji,” believes he can entirely change how humans see life with his radical new video game concept. He teams up with a respected psychologist to make sure his vision will manipulate the human psyche as he suspects it will—a critical factor to the game’s potential. As Koji slowly reveals secretive details of his mysterious concept, Isaac becomes more and more suspicious of the game’s true intentions. Fear is engrained in all of us, but as Erich Fromm described, there are two main types. First are sado-masochistic characters who kill the fear by being dependent on either controlling or being controlled. Second is the revolutionary character who embraces the fear of being a free human. Similarly, the famous philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche thought there is little to no difference between success and failure when it comes to their functionality. Human mind is engraved with a false belief that success is heaven and failure is hell. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. Sigmund Freud believed our unconscious thoughts and desires define us. So maybe, heaven is a place where the unconscious desires define us, but not control us and hell… well, just look at the commercials.