Dumb People Don’t Play

How to empower people through play

What happens if you don’t know how to learn?
No way!
Seriously, think about.
How many people do you know who understand the mechanics of how to learn?
Of course, people know how to learn! It stands to reason, does it not?

Well, I would argue that once people leave school, leave university, it is generally the last time they learn anything.
Ouch!

That seems really harsh, sure, it may even be a gross exaggeration, but it can not be that far from the truth.
The sad fact is that people don’t just stop learning after their formal education is over, but, over time, what they did know actually depreciates, year after year, until they suddenly find themselves in a place of ignorance; a position where they look around and realize that everything has outpaced them. The world has moved on, while they stayed still and did not really see the changes happening around them.

When we look at the technological gap between generations, I think we discover something unique: unless they have made the effort to play video games, which is a mark of immersive intelligence, boomers — in the contemporary meaning of the word — have no real…