Andreas Dietzel gets his PlayBook

Today I had lunch with Andreas Dietzel. I gave him a book that hopefully will help him to sell his expertise to have some fun on his free time.

This is a step-by-step book that showed me the first steps towards doing what I love on a full time basis. One important secret is, as the cover says, “… and get paid for it”. I needed to get paid in order to put in the time and effort to do quality work. The best way to find out if you can get paid enough is to do it. Here is how:

A Soundbite

Here is the authors own story, (read from page 178 in the book by Ola Vea):

My Escape from the world of jobs.

Putting the book to use

When I talk to people about their jobs I use questions that are inspired by this book. The questions help me find out what they like about their work. When people tell me about the things they like best about their work, they talk more freely. Thus it is easier to get them talking about what they want to change about their work. My goal with the conversation is to find a need or a problem. When I have identified a need I go home and connect my new contact with an old contact who can help them with their need. Read this blogpost about how Benedicte put the book to use. Or you can read about how to get started in my blogpost “The benefits of being in play”

If you read norwegian, here is a blog post about how you can build your own questions about peoples job. To find out how you can connect them with somebody who can help them.

Get Screw Work Let’s Play:

• Get the first chapter free.
• Buy the book right now.
• Meet me in the cafés and backstreets around Rodeløkka and I might give you “Let’s Play” for free. Like I did to this guy on tuesday night at Locanda italian restaurant:

Gave away @johnsw book to @noekult tuesday night. "Get your cool car #playbiz. on the road man!"

Got a package from Amazon today :-D I will give these away.