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What Games Can Teach Us with Frank Lantz

Forcing Function Hour

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Are We Playing Games All the Time?

There are a lot of situations in the world that you can kind of frame as being game-like. I like this invisible game that we are playing without even realizing it. The games that we play with other people when we are constantly maneuvering through status space, trying to like maintain face and project a certain identity. We don't normally think of conversations as games but they have some game-like structure under the hood.

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