…and before long I entered the danger zone. And then he discovered a game called Drop7. For a while, he resisted downloading games but figured there was no harm in chess. Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Fruit Ninja.Īnderson, knowing his weakness, resisted the iPhone for years because of the too-strong-to-resist pull of its games. Sam Anderson’s recent piece in The New York Times Magazine, “Just One More Game…”, examines the addictive non-rational freewill-shattering “opium kind of power” of the “stupid games” that live on the wireless gadgets in our pockets. The sermons, advice columns, pep talks, and self-help books just keep coming.įor those who still believe people are rational and able to follow good advice, I have two words: Angry. But that fact doesn’t seem to bother any one. We appeal to our rational minds, our wills. Yet so often, the advice we get is to make better choices. So often-and I mean All The Time-we do things that we know will cause ourselves pain, suffering, regret, guilt, and unhappiness. And so began a day of making non-optimal self-defeating choices. This morning I hit snooze four or five times.
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