Every moment is a deep ocean full of perceptions fishes, ready to be explored.
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
- David Lynch
In our daily life, my wife and I play various strange language games. For example, if one of us says "That is true!", after a chosen time, he or she has to surprise the other person by whispering into the others ear in a mysterious voice "... and the opposite too!".
We invent different rules that we heighten repeat & after some time break. We don’t really plan when these new patterns appear or when they disappear. It just happens.
Other examples are the “Mock Salutes” from the “How I Met Your Mother” series.
The private joke was that Ted and Robin would mock others e.g. General Knowledge, Corporal Punishment. Over the dinner Bob used the phrase 'Major Buzzkill', causing Ted and Robin to salute without thinking.
Such a private joke would be also called a game in the Improv Theatre world.
Vulture defines a game as:
“any pattern that emerges within a scene that the improvisers may follow while exploring the relationship between the characters.” [0]
Finding the game in our daily life is about being curious about life's patterns. This can be applied to nearly every realm of human life. If you wanna research a topic you are researching its patterns (noise over signal). If you write a text, you can play with patterns under the obvious definitions: “A cat - a wild hairy beast - consuming an innocent feast.”
On the psychological level, you can do the same. What are the behavioral patterns that you perceive in your daily life? Do you just repeat the same loops of actions from day to day or are you playing with your daily schedules?
Do you see how serious you are cleaning the kitchen after breakfast? Heighten your own seriousness into absurdity. Be the most serious kitchen cleaner you can find in the whole milky way! … and then break the loop & clean in a completely new way.
Do you say each evening before sleep “Good Night“ in the same way? Heighten this pattern & bring some formal nobless into the style of your “Good Night“. Be the butler that says “Good Night“ to Batman & let your spouse answer in the Joker's voice wishing you “Not So Serious Dreams“ …and break the pattern.
Play with your habits!
There are 2 Types of being unboreable:
someone that doesn't need to play & isn't curious → meaningless bliss ["YES"]
someone that is curiosity-driven & can create their own improvised games → meaningful utilization ["YES, AND..."]
References:
[0] https://www.vulture.com/2012/11/improvs-babel-defining-the-game-of-the-scene.html