The benefits of White Hat Gamification are apparent and most firms who be taught my framework instantly assume, “Okay, we need to do White Hat!” They would largely be proper, besides there’s a vital weak spot of White Hat Motivation: it doesn’t create a way of urgency.

For instance: if I approached you with nice enthusiasm and exclaimed, “Go out and change the world today!” You could grow to be very excited by this Core Drive 1 set off and should echo, “Yes! I’m going to go out and change the world! But I’m going to first have a nice breakfast, brush my teeth, and get prepared for the day!” As you possibly can see, there isn’t any urgency with this stage of White Hat pleasure.

However, if I took out a gun and pointed it at your head, whereas quietly whispering, “Go out and change the world, or I’m going to kill you,” you’re nonetheless prone to “change the world,” however you’re in all probability not going to get pleasure from your good breakfast or brush your enamel whereas being pushed by my threatening Core Drive 8: Loss & Avoidance motivation.

Of course, at that time you additionally now not be ok with altering the world. Once you possibly can go away my grasp, you’ll probably cease caring and drop the noble trigger altogether. That is, except the Epic Meaning & Calling regenerates from inside.

Black Hat Gamification creates the urgency that system designers usually want to perform their objectives and alter conduct. Often this can’t be achieved by White Hat Gamification alone.

If an organization merely implements White Hat Gamification whereas the consumer is continually uncovered to Black Hat stimuli from different sources equivalent to electronic mail, appointments, or distractions from Facebook, they’ll almost definitely not have the chance to check out the expertise. Of course, this consumer will really feel horrible additionally, as a result of they’ll proceed to procrastinate as an alternative of doing the issues which can be extra significant and make them really feel good. Unfortunately, due to the character of Black Hat motivation, they’ll proceed behaving that means however.