As a Facebook fan of The P.S. 22 Chorus, I found the following video last week:
You might think this is just your average cute dancing baby youtube video, but you’d be wrong!
The toddler in this video demonstrates the innate ability in children to find the game in anything.
At 1:04, this little girl finds that if she presses the space bar, her mother will intervene and say “uh oh.” The rules for the game have been established instantly. Several seconds later, she presses the space bar again and pre-emptively declares “uh oh,” taking pleasure in the game she’s helped create. It’s much more fun for her than the dancing she initially did spontaneously.
We humans have a natural desire to create games. Organizations that recognize this can motivate and engage users and consumers where orders to “just dance” never can.
