So I have downloaded one of those apps that let you track everything you do and used it for two weeks. I thought I knew myself pretty well but the app revealed unexpected things about me.
First of all, it turns out that I’m a lot more hardworking than I tend to believe. I work about 30 hours a week, and that’s in summer when I don’t teach and have no service obligations. This discovery made me very proud of myself. I will try to get to 40 hours this week.
A less heartening discovery was that, contrary to what I always tell myself, I’m quite a gamer. Since I never sit down and play for an hour or two, like “real” gamers do, I never noticed that gaming was a part of my life. But all of those little gaming sessions that last 5-10 minutes and that are spread around during the day do tend to add up.
These apps are a fascinating tool of self-knowledge.
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I am highly amused at the thought of “real” gamers sitting down to play for an hour or two.
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I am certainloy acquainted with people who sit at a computer playing a game for twenty hours straight.
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Yes, this is the stage when gaming has become a powerful tool of psychological compensation.
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What games do you play?
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Right now I like this game where you have to make words out of letter tiles, and the person who makes the longest words wins. 🙂
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A friend of mine says that the sign in the photograph should read: “Men Playing in the Road.”
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That’s the very first time I saw this kind of sign. 🙂
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