Wednesday, March 03, 2004
The Color Test
When you see BLUE, what do you see first: the color or the name of the color? It's a left-brain/right-brain kinda thing, don't you know. And one has this tendency to confuse the other, in a kind of deliciously tickly way. Which makes it remarkably fun to play with, even if the playground is more like a test than a game.
As you go about perfecting your skills in The Color Test, here's a couple of extra thoughts to confound your playful being: 1) being confused - as long as it's just the right amount of confusion - is a great source of fun, 2) even test taking can be fun (see, for example, Jeopardy as lovingly and elegantly made into into educational Power Point delights by the Hardin County Teachers).
This fits quite well with my "fun that is good for you" theme. Which, given how much bad press fun gets nowadays, is sadly not one of your more popular, thematically speaking. In fact, fun has received such remarkably and consistently bad press (my wife Rocky keeps saying "Fun is not a four-letter word") that it's almost a revelation to think that anything fun can be good for you. Which may, now that I think about it, be the whole point.
As you go about perfecting your skills in The Color Test, here's a couple of extra thoughts to confound your playful being: 1) being confused - as long as it's just the right amount of confusion - is a great source of fun, 2) even test taking can be fun (see, for example, Jeopardy as lovingly and elegantly made into into educational Power Point delights by the Hardin County Teachers).
This fits quite well with my "fun that is good for you" theme. Which, given how much bad press fun gets nowadays, is sadly not one of your more popular, thematically speaking. In fact, fun has received such remarkably and consistently bad press (my wife Rocky keeps saying "Fun is not a four-letter word") that it's almost a revelation to think that anything fun can be good for you. Which may, now that I think about it, be the whole point.
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