What I Learned from “Google Dinosaur Game”?
By: Sanjeet Marskole
Tags: Google, Journey Of Life, Life, Motivation, Games

What I Learned from “Google Dinosaur Game”?

This Game changed the Way I used to Think

I remember it was cloudy that day, a little dark outside and weather forecasting channels were expecting rain in my locality. As usual I was sitting with my laptop on my favorite couch doing my research about, what I should write next? Because of slow internet, sites were taking too much time to load and after 2 minutes suddenly the site page started showing this message “No internet,” I got frustrated and by mistake I hit the keyboard with my bare hand. Then the well known google dinosaur started running. Until that time I didn’t know that we could play that game on the desktop, I Found that by pressing space we could start playing the game.

You might be wondering about what possible thing I could learn from this simple game? But remember sometimes simple things taught more than a complex one. All these points are not associated with each they have their own space and here’s what I learned

Just Start

Whatever you want to do or whatever is your goal, take your first step towards and stop thinking about it and just start working on it because, “something is always better than nothing.”

The dinosaur was just standing still not doing anything until I hit the spacebar and that was my start. Now the dinosaur is running and jumping and achieving some scores. Even if I didn’t score that well at least I can say that I tried. Worrying about some hypothetical problem which we may face in the future, will ruin our present. We already lost control over our past and we don’t know about our future, what we have is our present. So just start.

Be Competitive

Be competitive but never be jealous of someone else’s success and the best way of doing this is by competing with yourself. Always try to be a better version of yourself. “No one can beat you except you.”

The thing I like most about this game is it always shows our top scores on the corner not others like any other games. Because of this somewhere back in my mind I always have this feeling that last time I hit this mark and now I’m gonna break that high score and make a new one. And I do this again and again which makes me better and better in this game. Sometimes I score less than my previous scores but I never stop challenging myself. Until my internet starts working.

Celebration

Life keeps giving us problems, some are difficult and some are simple but when we give a beautiful answer of it we should celebrate that movement.

In this game after hitting every 100 mark it plays a small part of music or whatever you want to call it as. It stops counting scores for a while and starts blinking that 100 mark appears on the corner that’s it. Moreover The Less it celebrates every movement, not too much just as much as we deserve because it’s just a small achievement but it is an achievement.

If we are working hard towards our dreams and whenever we make some progress just celebrate that movement more like a treat not like a huge celebration. What this thing does is, it will push you and your mind to do more work hard. Not like celebrating every single step towards our goal. If we start doing it instead of getting motivation for hard work we’ll start wasting our time.

The Fake satisfaction

This is a harsh one. So if you look closely to the background and the dinosaur which is a Trex in the game you can see that stars and clouds are going backwards which makes an illusion that the dino is running forward. Just because of this we start thinking that we are making some progress in the game, yes it is true. But here’s what I learned: actually the dinosaur is not running, hurdles keep coming in his way and he keeps dodging and jumping over them. He is stuck in the same position from where he was started because of continuously increasing numbers in the score section. We think that dinosaur came too far but that’s not the case here. Same thing applies to us if you start getting appreciation from people and if they say something like this that I had seen your hard now you have come so far, etc. Take that compliment in a positive way that, at least you have done something and now results are showing up but remember this is not an end this is just a start you have a long journey to cover.

The Path

Life is incomplete without hurdles. Everything that you want to own or want to achieve comes at a cost. So enjoy the journey and stick with it until you get some result.

Problems are a part of our life, even if you aren’t doing anything no matter what problems will come and knock at the door. Let’s take the example of the dinosaur, here the dinosaur keeps running on his path and never stops running in the middle of the game or to switch his path to any other game just because jumping and running starts looking repetitive or boring for him, he continues to run until he gets some result. If you have taken your first step towards your goal then forget that there is any second choice that exists in this world until you get some result out of it. Who knows? Maybe you will succeed or maybe you will fail. But I can guarantee that you will definitely learn something.