When I posted about how playing games wasn’t wasting time it was giving myself an odd sense of accomplishment… turns out I wasn’t wrong about just how useful and even therapeutic that can be:
Jane McGonigal says “games allow us to experience epic wins, incentivizing us to give them millions of hours to them in order to feel the thrill of success”. She proposes we can harness all that energy, good feeling, and camaraderie to solve the world’s hardest problems.
Tags: fun, psychology
