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		javier_e06 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the... Video gaming seem to be down this alley on the study of self-motiviation. Some games are made to burn time, like Thumper. Some games are made to burn you neurons like Baba is You. Minecraft has 2 modes. Creative and Zombie. Both equally powerful incentives. I try to keep the plasticity of my brain. Not to let it crust and crumble like Play Doh left outside the tub.

drewcoo 9 months ago [–]

Video games are a canonical example of using tricks to drive extrinsic motivation, not intrinsic. There's this thing everyone tries to use to make otherwise undesirable tasks addictive . . . gamification.

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