Ian Bogost Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.

  Ian Bogost

  Fun, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: app.longform.org

• With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved. But then when you're finished, you can conclude, "Actually there was something gratifying about the hardship that I just encountered." That discovery of novelty is where the molten core of fun is.

  Ian Bogost

  Sports, Fun, Night

  Source: app.longform.org

• The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

  Ian Bogost

  Effort, Universe

  Source: app.longform.org

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