This is just a quick posting before I try to get one together this afternoon about MMORPGs.
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had some time to spend with my youngest brother, my cousin and some of our mutual friends who are about his age and one thing really jumped out at me. It’s something that is pretty much common sense for many of us, but it is something that is easily forgotten in everything else that happens in our quest to do more of whatever we want to do.
Kids seem to be unstoppable when it comes to technology and solving other “small” puzzles. Why? I think it’s because they don’t know they can’t do whatever or because they don’t have any “baggage” about “the way it used to work or how it works on other systems” to help or hinder. They plug away at problems, taking small steps and having small successes, building on these successes, they keep on rolling onto larger projects, dealing with all manner of problems in the same manner as long as (or so it seems) that nobody older tells them that they can’t do it or that they are wasting their time. Once this happens, it seems that some switch turns off and kids start to doubt themselves.
This reenforcement loop is well known, but it’s something that is all too easily forgotten.
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