Education for Well-being Education as if people and the planet mattered

The last post discussed how I might be needing some  help when it comes to avoiding distractors and time-sucks. The video below describes an app that takes an interesting approach to human motivation by using role-playing game theory to help us be more deliberate with our use of time.   Harnessing and applying the variables that motivate many to play online games for hours on end toward other personal and societal goals like learning, exercising and voting, seems exciting.

As new ideas develop that attempt to uncover new ways of inspiring better behavior,  we expect them to follow closer to themes of social motivation and immediate feedback loops, and further from the idea of the coldly rational, will-driven individual. Kyle Studstill at PSFK.com