![]() ![]() And I would have felt pleasure in achieving it. If I hadn’t noticed this, and if I’m right about what I need to learn French, then I would have wasted a bunch of time pursuing a useless proxy goal. What bugs me here is that this specific gamification didn’t fit my goals, and that fact didn’t at all affect how well the system grabbed my wanting. I don’t have a problem with gamification per se. But the point is: I disagree, I think my disagreement comes from knowing what I’m talking about when it comes to my learning, and someone’s arbitrary gold stars immediately overrode all that insight by grabbing my motivations directly. ![]() Maybe perfect practice makes perfect, yada yada. …which really doesn’t help me learn French. I noticed that I could get the second and maybe third star of “Sharpshooter” by doing earlier lessons and googling words and phrases I wasn’t quite sure about… These arbitrary things that someone had just stuck on there… in order to get me to want them. I watched myself hungering to get the achievements. In the “achievements” section, it showed me that I could earn the second star by doing twenty lessons in a row flawlessly. They gave me the first of three stars for something like doing five lessons without mistakes. Since the last time I was there, they added an “achievements” mechanic: I remembered getting something out of Duolingo a few years ago, so I logged in. Recently I started picking up French again. ![]()
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