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The same thing that happens when they watch other people play sports or chess or ping pong, or when I watch other people complete home improvement projects that
by jimmy1 8y ago
The same thing that happens when they watch other people play sports or chess or ping pong, or when I watch other people complete home improvement projects that I have been putting off for years (I swear honey, I am going to build us the radest deck one day)
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoWith sport there was a recent report that as we live vicariously through the sportsmen we watch - that we're, IIRC, less likely to seek out active pursuits. As of our brain thinks we've been doing sport ourselves. When I watch chess I can almost play along, it's very close to playing for oneself. I'm not sure it's a foregone conclusion that our desire for gaming would be sated, rather than stimulated. It's probably different for children too? When I was young I couldn't watch sport; it didn't make sense to me to sit and watch someone else have fun instead of going and having fun myself.