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The uselessness of negativity in failures

The uselessness of negativity in failures

  • The trick to learning more and having more success is finding the right way to frame the learning process in your mind. 
  • The people who do not see failure in a negative light are more likely to stay on the path of success because they keep trying. 

To avoid failure, one must not concern themselves with failure itself, at all.

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To obsess about the task, not the wins or losses

To obsess about the task, not the wins or losses

When it comes to games like Super Mario Bros,no one ever picks up the controller for the first time and then after jumping into a pit thinks, "I am so ashamed; that was such a failure," and then never want to try it again.

They think, "I've got to remember there's a pit there;...

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Re-learning the Toddler's version of trial and error

Re-learning the Toddler's version of trial and error

Toddlers constantly try new things, unconcerned with failure. When they learn to walk, they don't think about how dumb they might look if they fall and the parents wouldn't punish them if they waren't successful either. The focus is always on the end goal, and the wins are always celebrated.

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The weight of fake and meaningless internet points

The weight of fake and meaningless internet points

Rober conducted a test where 50,000 of his followers were given a puzzle to solve with one group being penalized for failed attempts and the other moving ahead with the original amount of points, regardless of any failures. 

  1. The success rate of the penalized group resulted in around 52...

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It's all about rescuing princess Peach from the evil Bowser

It's all about rescuing princess Peach from the evil Bowser

  • As a direct result of that attitude of learning and not being focused on the failures, we are able to learn a lot in order to win, in a very short amount of time. 
  • This is the Super Mario Effect: By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life's challenges like...

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The gamification of learning

The gamification of learning

Mark Rober, a YouTube star and former NASA engineer coined the phenomenon of 'The Super Mario Effect' which is a data-backed mindset for life gamification that impacts the ways one helpfully tricks their minds into learning just about anything.

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Reframe the challenges

Reframe the challenges

  • This concept of life gamification is more than just about having a positive attitude or never giving up, because instead of implying that you're enduring against your true desire to quit, you end up framing a challenge or a learning process in a way that you'll actually want to do it.

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