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Turning ADHD Daily Life into a Game Worth Playing
Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast
Gamify to Engage: Make Rules Fun
Dopamine drives attention, influencing focus based on the enjoyment of tasks. Engaging in enjoyable activities enhances hyper-focus, while unappealing tasks lead to avoidance and impaired executive function. To combat this, one can gamify challenging tasks by making them enjoyable, introducing elements that provide small rewards similar to the dopamine boost from games. This perspective on gamification emphasizes that incorporating fun into structured tasks can significantly improve engagement and motivation.
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Hollowell sometimes he'll say that it's not it's not an attention deficit as much as it is your attention is gonna go where your dopamine is so you can have a tension you can have hyper focus attention when it's when you're doing something that you're really enjoying if you're doing something that you don't really want to do or you have some fear around it or whatever then it's a lot harder to get started and you tend to avoid and that's where those executive functions really start to be impaired. So it's that dopamine and games give us the dopamine and so a lot of times in coaching when I'm talking to clients we talk about like how do you gamify some of these things that you don't want to do how do you make them more fun how do you engage in a minute in a different way so that it does give you that little hit and and it's not as painful.
Speaker 1
Yes and that is that's one of the things that really stuck out to me as I was sitting in in Chautauqua on this particular week of games I was learning from Colleen Macklin who is a game designer and a teacher or professor of game design and she said this and this is the thing that I think provoked us as we were talking about this she said games make rules fun yeah I
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love that.
Speaker 1
Games make rules fun right
Speaker 2
when you said that to me when
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