The Shiny Object Syndrome and Why It Is Not That Bad When Looked Through the Lense of Games
We can use our yearning for something new and shiny to spruce up what lost its shine in our perception.
Successful online games get regular updates and new features. Or maybe some older and forgotten features, but reinvented and shown in a new light.
Even board games get extensions, expansions, and new releases.
My experience with the Super Sleeper and other habit games revealed different dynamics, both in terms of the habit games themselves and in their development. But they have one thing in common — my constant lookout for something new or how to see something I’ve already experienced in a novel way.
The New York Times best-selling author, and one of the world’s most prolific and successful self-publishing authors, Joanna Penn, addresses the so-called “shiny object syndrome” in her acclaimed book How To Write Non-Fiction: Turn Your Knowledge Into Words. This syndrome essentially describes being distracted from, and, therefore, procrastinating about the project you want or need to pursue by other things that pique your curiosity.
This constant desire for something new, which everyone can recognize from childhood and the…
