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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 leave you with. It's about how individual engagement can be transformed by the pgsocyhoalicl and the neurological lessons we can lraen from watching people that are playing games. But it's also about collective enngeaegmt and about the unprecedented laboratory for observing what makes ploepe tick and work and play and engage on a grand scale in geams. 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.

Thank you very much.

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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 _____________ and the neurological lessons we can _____ from watching people that are playing games. But it's also about collective __________ and about the unprecedented laboratory for observing what makes ______ tick and work and play and engage on a grand scale in _____. 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.

Thank you very much.

Solution


  1. learn
  2. people
  3. games
  4. psychological
  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.

Thank you very much.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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