Play for engagement and insight
More (and light game rules)
With a group, chew on the top question on a card. Poll everyone for their immediate reaction, then discuss, then poll again.
Start each business meeting (or class) with a single Socratic question for four weeks. Watch everyone grow more connected and engaged.
Or with friends, play through four or five. At the end of each question, have each participant give a point to the person who made the most insightful comment.
- Normalize asking real questions
- Normalize participation
- Normalize high energy
This gives you the energy to invest.
Light Game Rules
- Host reads the top Socratic question.
- Everyone commits to a position (usually by show of hands).
- Host asks participants “why,” and all ask follow‑up questions.
- Everyone commits to a position again.
- Each participant awards one point (or a character callout) to the participant who made the most insightful comment (the bon mot).
- Repeat for the agreed number of questions.
Grow through completing challenges
More (and challenge game rules)
The middle "catalyst" question and optional bottom activity on each card provide real ways for anyone to make progress on important journeys.
Each will help you matter at work and home. Challenge yourself or others — and even make workplaces a bit more like Ted Lasso's (or John Wooden's).
- Normalize making progress on the journeys that matter
- Normalize community strengthening
- Normalize running experiments to answer important questions
Easy challenges return more energy than they cost to complete, and harder challenges return even more energy.
Challenge Game Rules
- Anyone who completed a past challenge can share it. (5 minutes.)
- Top Socratic question discussion within a group. (5 minutes.)
- Discuss the middle “catalyst” question. (5 minutes.)
- Presentation of the optional challenge (bottom of card). Do not ask for commitments. (5 minutes.)
- Participants can commit to the challenge, or select a different challenge, after the meeting.
Lead by taking the Mentor Path
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Imagine a culture that rigorously develops mentors and leaders, where people regularly take on greater challenges to become more powerful and improve their community.
The Socratic Cards include a viral Mentor Path that any group can use to propagate a trackable transformation.
- Normalize asking for help
- Normalize mentoring others
- Normalize a culture that improves itself and its members
The Mentor Path lays out predicable and achievable steps to a total transformation, powered by fun and growth.
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