Latest / Good Morning From The Chicken Coop! / Season 4 - Episode 34 - The story of a failed gaming app

Transcript

Season 4 - Episode 34 - The story of a failed gaming app · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

• 0:01
  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
• 0:04
  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
• 0:07
  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
• 0:09
  happen to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
• 0:12
  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
• 0:16
  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
• 0:20
  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop, and
• 0:23
  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
• 0:27
  Hey everybody, good afternoon from the chicken coop.
• 0:31
  Yes, it's the afternoon and the girls are in the garden.
• 0:34
  And I'm standing out here trying to reimagine what we're working
• 0:37
  towards for this new year and how we can expand it and get
• 0:42
  past some of the problems we had last year, which ultimately
• 0:45
  caused great heartache for me that my, you know, beloved
• 0:49
  tomato crop just was in the toilet.
• 0:52
  Let's just say, as any of them who's a regular listener knows,
• 0:55
  it was a disastrous year with tomatoes.
• 0:58
  Putting that aside, there's a story to this.
• 1:00
  So as I'm sitting out here and I'm watching the girls dig
• 1:03
  through, we've got the covers off and we're letting them into
• 1:07
  the garden so they can dig through and really take out
• 1:10
  pests and eggs and all kinds of little things.
• 1:12
  And we'll get ready to start to burn the edges and go through
• 1:16
  the process that we're going to go through.
• 1:18
  One of the things that was really important to me was to
• 1:21
  sit and reimagine and and look at something and say, OK, well,
• 1:26
  now that we have this open and this available to take a look at
• 1:30
  again, we have to start looking at it from a new perspective.
• 1:34
  And it made me think about this old story that I heard.
• 1:36
  Well, it's, I mean old, but you know, back to a bit of time.
• 1:40
  There was an app that you guys probably never heard of.
• 1:44
  It was a multiplayer game 2011, and it was a big flop.
• 1:47
  And it was called Glitch and glitch just didn't work out.
• 1:50
  It just did not work. And it was a major flop for the
• 1:52
  people who did it. But there's a part of this that
• 1:55
  I love to remember. And it's the fact that the, as
• 2:00
  part of that gaming system, they came up with a unique way for
• 2:04
  the players to interact with each other.
• 2:06
  And it was a, it was a chat community.
• 2:09
  And it was a way of communication that allowed them
• 2:12
  to message back and forth quickly and easily among the
• 2:15
  game. And after the, the major failure
• 2:20
  of the game itself, they took that, they decided, they sat and
• 2:24
  they actually contemplated what what could, what about what they
• 2:28
  did was good and what could they use leftover from that.
• 2:34
  And it turns out that they recognize that the chatting part
• 2:37
  of it was a really, really useful part and could be brought
• 2:41
  into the business world. And some of you may actually use
• 2:44
  that today because it's called Slack.
• 2:46
  And I used it for years. And I loved Slack because it was
• 2:50
  just like having a Direct Line to anybody else you work with
• 2:53
  virtually in a way. And during, you know, the times
• 2:56
  of the pandemic, it was major to be able to have Slack and work
• 2:59
  with people back and forth because you could upload files
• 3:02
  and you can chat with them. And it's just instant system.
• 3:04
  And I absolutely loved it. And because they stopped and
• 3:09
  paused and recognized what was great about something that they
• 3:12
  had, even though it was a disaster from the standpoint of
• 3:16
  the overall thing, they were able to become billionaires with
• 3:19
  that. Now, obviously this garden is
• 3:22
  not something like at that level.
• 3:24
  However, as I stand here and I contemplate it and I look at it
• 3:28
  and I can say, OK, well, what is great about this?
• 3:31
  You know what, what's great about what worked well, you
• 3:34
  know, all the new soil that we put in on top of everything was
• 3:38
  a major boost for all the other vegetables.
• 3:43
  My problem was I was trying too many different things and did
• 3:47
  not have a handle on what we would use.
• 3:49
  I was just really into, oh, I want to try to grow something
• 3:53
  like that. Oh, I want to try that.
• 3:54
  So my creativity, it was having a ball buying seeds.
• 3:58
  But the planning part of it, oh, you know, I was not prepared.
• 4:03
  I was not prepared for the a number of things that we're
• 4:06
  going to go crazy in there and I didn't have the structures set
• 4:10
  up. I also insisted that I was going
• 4:12
  to do this and not even ask my husband for any help.
• 4:16
  Not at all. I was just going to go ahead and
• 4:18
  I was just going to do it and see what I could, you know, come
• 4:20
  up with on my own because he was busy doing his own projects and
• 4:23
  I didn't want to be a pain in the butt.
• 4:25
  However, it was a major mistake because I missed out on his
• 4:29
  expertise and what he could have brought to the table.
• 4:32
  So this year we are doing it together.
• 4:34
  This year he is coming and helping me.
• 4:37
  And in fact, as I'm recording this, he's walking up right now
• 4:41
  and looking at the girls all in here, having a fun time checking
• 4:45
  it out and we're making our plan for what's next.
• 4:47
  So the point of this is to give you guys a thought that says,
• 4:52
  hey, you know what? Even though something may have
• 4:54
  been disastrous and something may have not worked, there were
• 4:57
  parts of it that were probably pretty good.
• 4:59
  And I'm going to go back and I'm going to look through it and I'm
• 5:01
  going to pull it apart because that's what I'm doing right now
• 5:03
  as I'm standing here taking notes, pulling it apart,
• 5:06
  checking it out and trying to see what part of its are good,
• 5:08
  what parts are good, what parts need to be reimagined, and what
• 5:11
  parts I can can take and move over into this new phase that
• 5:15
  we're going into. So never just throw it all out
• 5:18
  because you never know what's there.
• 5:19
  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
• 5:21
  see you tomorrow. Bye.