Raising Indistractable Kids with Nir Eyal
Minds and Mics
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The Extrinsic Motivator
In many ways, kids are desperate for that autonomy to explore a topic and unharness their creativity. That's something we can really learn from. In the book, i talk about the work of ean bogost. He wrote a wonderful book called play anything. A bogost argue sthat play doesn't necessarily have to be fun. So he count of goes against very counter into it. If he goes against this notion that in order to incentivise yourself or some one to do something, you have to take mary poppins advice and add a spoonful of sugar. And so bogus talks about how that the intrinsic motivation can be found through play. Not in the traditional sense
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