Frank Yu Helps Motivate People as the CEO of Kwestr
Helping people accomplish their goals is a difficult task. Psychological barriers and stress often demotivate people from changing their lifestyles or going after things that they really want. Frank Yu is a cool person in technology who wants to gamify people’s goals and motivate people to accomplish more. Yu runs a startup and website called Kwestr. On Kwestr, users add different Kwests to their profile from a list of available options. Kwests lead to an ultimate goal, such as losing fifty pounds, running a marathon, or writing a book. However, Kwestr has each Kwest split up into several smaller tasks and accomplishments. This helps overcome users’ psychological barriers by taking a seemingly insurmountable goals and making them appear less intimidating. Kwestr also rewards users with notifications and congratulations each time they complete a step of their Kwest. These small reminders and pats on the back encourage users to push further on each Kwest. When someone completes a Kwest completely and accomplishes a goal, they receive a badge to show off on their Kwestr profile. These badges can act as social motivators for people as they can put their accomplishments in a public space online. Users who encounter problems creating a Kwestr account or creating Kwests for themselves will need computer support services to help them. Read more »
