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What do you take away from the Game of Life?

From the Coleface

In The Game of Life, here are ten of the lessons implied: 1. As a learning designer who often creates mini games for business purposes, I’m always interested in the subtext of a game – the behaviours and tactics that get rewarded with points and hence the model of how the world works that the game is implicitly teaching.

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Don’t waste your budget on a magic bullet

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I never practiced much between lessons so fairly soon my playing standard plateaued (over 80% of my playing time was actually in violin lessons). However the typical pattern still has 85% of the effort at the intervention stage. I can personally relate to this from my experience of learning the violin as a child.

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