{"id":6165,"date":"2021-02-06T03:02:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T03:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-beauty-of-the-struggle\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T20:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:24:30","slug":"the-beauty-of-the-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-beauty-of-the-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"The beauty of the struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When we play games, we can pursue a goal, not for its own value, but for the value of the struggle. Thus, playing games involves a motivational inversion from normal life. We adopt an interest in winning temporarily, so we can experience the beauty of the struggle.<\/p><p>Games offer us a temporary experience of life under utterly clear values, in a world engineered to fit to our abilities and goals. <\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Games-Agency-As-Art-Thinking\/dp\/0190052082\">C Thi Nguyen<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we play games, we can pursue a goal, not for its own value, but for the value of the struggle. Thus, playing games involves a motivational inversion from normal life. We adopt an interest in winning temporarily, so we can experience the beauty of the struggle. Games offer us a temporary experience of life&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-beauty-of-the-struggle\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,378],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-6165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-psychology-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1Br","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6330,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions\/6330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}