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Is life a game ? Saying “life is a game” seems to encourage you to take life less seriously. But it can also make you take it more seriously by getting you more invested and interested — the way any good game does. “Scoring points” of any kind has an interesting effect. What gets measured gets managed. Kids do better in school when it’s treated as a game and scored: The class and its grading procedure include a number of features modeled on the computer game World of Warcraft, complete with “quests,” “monsters,” and “guilds.” Throughout the semester, the students can compare their standing with that of their classmates and devise a plan to accumulate more experience points. Whenever they do well on their assignments or exams, they earn points rather than traditional grades. When Sheldon introduced this system, he found that his students worked harder and were also more enthusiastic in class. In addition, the new system triggered collaborative behavior among the students and re

What does research say about news and happiness? Research has shown that TV news throws off our ability to be accurate judges of life’s risks and rewards: Psychologists have found that people who watch less TV are actually more accurate judges of life’s risks and rewards than those who subject themselves to the tales of crime, tragedy, and death that appear night after night on the ten o’clock news. That’s because these people are less likely to see sensationalized or one-sided sources of information, and thus see reality more clearly.   And studies have also concluded that the news can make depression worse: This study examines television viewing motives and psychological outcomes of television news viewing by persons in depressive moods. Subjects were measured for depression, motives for television use, and psychological outcomes of viewing TV newscasts. Results suggest that, in general, television viewing can serve as a means of escape from depressive moods, although viewi

1) Realize it’s not about natural talent. It’s about hard work.   We all know intelligence is important, creativity is important… but how much do these types of natural talent control really what you can achieve in life? In ~95% of cases, they don’t. Read more: http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2013/01/checklist-best/#ixzz2V3MgX2Zw 2) 10,000 hours is not the whole story   As Malcolm Gladwell discussed in his bestseller, “ Outliers “, to become an expert it takes 10,000 hours (or approximately 10 years), right? Wrong. It takes 10,000 hours of  deliberate practice . That means actively working to improve. Just showing up doesn’t cut it. Most people may do something for 10,000 hours (driving a car over the course of a lifetime) but never get anywhere near expert level (Formula One). Most people plateau and some even  get worse.   3) Make your practice as close to the real thing as possible   Nothing beats really doing it   4) Commit to the long term   Merel