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From the Ted Talk by Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And in the end, it's this word, "engagement," that I want to lvaee you with. It's about how idadinvuil eagnemengt can be transformed by the psychological and the nraglueoocil lessons we can learn from watching people that are playnig games. But it's also about collective engagement and about the unprecedented laboratory for observing what makes people tick and work and play and engage on a grand scale in games. And if we can look at these things and learn from them and see how to turn them outwards, then I really think we have something quite revolutionary on our hands.

Open Cloze

And in the end, it's this word, "engagement," that I want to _____ you with. It's about how __________ __________ can be transformed by the psychological and the ____________ lessons we can learn from watching people that are _______ games. But it's also about collective engagement and about the unprecedented laboratory for observing what makes people tick and work and play and engage on a grand scale in games. And if we can look at these things and learn from them and see how to turn them outwards, then I really think we have something quite revolutionary on our hands.

Solution

  1. leave
  2. neurological
  3. individual
  4. playing
  5. engagement

Original Text

And in the end, it's this word, "engagement," that I want to leave you with. It's about how individual engagement can be transformed by the psychological and the neurological lessons we can learn from watching people that are playing games. But it's also about collective engagement and about the unprecedented laboratory for observing what makes people tick and work and play and engage on a grand scale in games. And if we can look at these things and learn from them and see how to turn them outwards, then I really think we have something quite revolutionary on our hands.

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