Creativity: Good Habits of Creative People
Creativity is a huge part of what we do here at Red Door. It’s an essential element especially for our game designers, just as it will be for those of you trying to win that $1,000 grand prize from our Design Your Own Escape Room campaign! When you start thinking about how to design your own escape room, […]
Brain Food: 10 Foods that Help You Think
Ah, the New Year. Raise your hand if January 2018 marked your start of a healthy diet. Raise your hand if January’s not even over and you’re already struggling. One of the most common New Year’s Resolutions is to develop better eating habits, but it’s also one of the hardest to maintain. What’s up with that? […]
Gratitude Over Entitlement
“We are constantly thankful for the gifts we have been given and we show our thankfulness through our work. We work willingly and joyfully, tending never toiling.” This value was originally called “joy” but we believe that gratitude goes one level deeper—gratitude always leads to joy. We see in the Christian tradition, as well as many […]
Immersion and Sensory Stimulation
At the front of our game designers’ minds is a simple word: immersion. Our escape rooms seek to bring you into a new world, a task our designers do not take lightly. Immersion is the state of being deeply engaged, involved, or absorbed. You can think of it like being fully submerged in the ocean, […]
How To Make A Great First Impression At A Job Interview
Whether you’re looking for a job or just meeting someone for the first time, the first impression is crucial. Your first impression is the foundation of your character; it’s the thing people will remember about you and it’s the person they’ll compare you to as you grow. So how can you make sure you make […]
How To Perform Under Pressure
Whether you’re pulling an all-nighter at school, preparing for a business presentation, or even playing an escape room with 10 minutes left on the clock—you’ve experienced the need to present your best work while under pressure. And sometimes you do, other times you don’t. But is there a formula to guarantee success, even with a […]
The Power of “Yet”: Self-Improvement
It’s amazing how a simple word like “yet” can add so much on to the meaning of a phrase. “Yet” implies that, at some point, you will be able to do that thing. That you can learn how to do it and that you intend to learn how to do it. It’s the difference between a fixed […]
What has quarantine taught you over the last 30 days?
RAISE YOUR HAND IF FACEBOOK MEMORIES HAVE BEEN REMINDING YOU OF TIMES LONG AGO THAT YOU WERE OUT, FROLICKING ABOUT, JUST LIVING YOUR LIFE FREELY WITHOUT A TOILET PAPER WORRY IN THE WORLD? YEAH, ME TOO. IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY FOR FAMILY OUTINGS, IT’S FAMILY INNINGS! WHAT HAS QUARANTINE TAUGHT […]
Talk the Talk: How to be a Better Communicator
They say, “Communication is key.” Key to what? Well as reality would have it, communication can be the key to success or it can be the key to a mess. So the real question is what separates these two outcomes? As in most cases, the winning factor is effectiveness. If you want to be a […]
People Over Profit
“At Red Door, we believe that people are the end game, not the means. We believe that investing in people is the best way to steward our resources.” “PEOPLE” is our first value because it is the foundation for why we exist as a business. Red Door does not exist simply to make money, we […]
