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Jane McGonigal – How Games Make Life Better - [Invest Like the Best, EP.138]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Game Designers Are Ery Interested in That Perfect State of Challenge
Games are designed for you to be bad at them the first time you try that's where the interest comes from. As you accumulate all that evidence of i can get better through my own effort, through my own attention and my own desire to grow, i can build skills, i can improve. And that growth pattern that you experience, it's a growth mine sip, but it's also actual growth of real new abilities that's really sticky to your brain. Your brain says, this is my super power. This is my talent. So it kind of helps explain why the game brain doesn't just stay in the game for most people, that it starts looking for other opportunities. What else can
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