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The surprising effects of video games with Ash Brandin

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Is Nintendo Failing Kids Brains?

I think of the time I was trying to beat Metroid and I guess one Saturday I played for a bunch of hours and my mom got fed up. And you know instead of banning me from Nintendo she called our local newspaper the Detroit Free Press and said I don't like what video games are doing to my son. That is a lovely metaphor not just for middle schoolers right but for humans. Oh yeah. Let's go back to when he was I was seven. Before I knew it there's a news crew at our house putting me on the front page in the newspaper asking whether Nintendo is frying kids brains. Well. Yeah it's a little intense but I was tried to freeze dry one

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