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The surprising effects of video games with Ash Brandin

ReThinking

CHAPTER

Video Games Make You Feel Intensely Motivated

Video games are not designed in a way that makes you intrinsically motivated. They do that by making players feel generally one of three things: Autonomy, competence and relatedness. The fact that we have someone that kids love to do builds up skills such as tenacity or strategic thinking.

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