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my experience with this is playing a game called Hapland. this game was very challenging and got me very upset whenever i tried to do it. i continued over and over again to complete it and it never happened at all. i also tried new ways and different things to maybe change it up to make it work and this too didnt work for me. i really started to get frustrated and really mad so i gave up for a little bit. i never thought i was going to get gratification of winning this game or just beating the first level. but then i did everything that i needed to and finally passed the first level. i felt the best in the world and finally got the delayed gratification that i was looking for.

In the essay from Johnson he explains the key term delayed gratification. delayed gratification is the excitement you get once you win a game. it might take you forever to get that gratification but once you get it you feel great and just want to continue doing it over and over again just because you did it. i also used the term pattern recognition. after doing it over and over again while failing it also helped me to understand what was not right to do and also what was right to do. it helped the process of winning or beating the first level and getting the delayed gratification that i was looking for.

I believe that the statement of video games make people stupid is not right. i agree with thethe reality that it makes them sharper. you need a lot of thinking abilities sometimes to beat a really hard level of a game or how to make certain things move a certain way and things like that. while just reading a book just makes you absorb knowledge that really has nothing to do with sharpening your mind. it just makes you have knowledge that not everyone has, which isnt always useful in the real world.

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