Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Jerry Whorebach: Ludologist

[quote name="Let's Make Everything Into Games"][quote name="Jerry Whorebach"]I used to hate doing sit-ups. I'd wake up with a hundred sit-ups hanging over my head and I wouldn't even want to get out of bed. Eventually I'd force myself to do them, it would take forever and the whole time all I'd be thinking about is getting it over with so I could move on to something else (reading comic books?). One day, I tried a different approach. I made a GAME out of it. I set a stop watch and decided to do as many as I could in two minutes - no more and no less. Immediately, a switch flipped in my brain. Sit-ups no longer felt like grinding. They felt like WINNING. Every day I'd try and beat my high score; when I did I'd feel triumphant, and when I didn't, well, at least I'd feel like I fought a good fight.[/quote] You are the target audience, nerd.[/quote]