The Super Mario Effect - Tricking Your Brain into Learning More | Mark Rober | TEDxPenn

“The trick to learning more and having more success is finding the right way to frame the learning process.”

It describes the process of focusing on the princess and not the pits, to stick with a task and learn more.

The focus is about beating the game, not about how dumb you might look. And as a direct result of that attitude—of learning from but not being focused on the failures—we got really good and we learned a ton in a really short amount of time.

When you frame a challenge or a learning process in this way, you actually want to do it. It feels natural to ignore the failures and try again.