The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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As an anecdotal counter point: I played through the "Age of Empires 2" campaign at around 13 years old. Not only did it teach me more about history than the entire middle school curriculum, it also awakened my love for history. The combination of both lead to perfect grades in all my history classes till I graduated high school.
AoE2 is an exceptionally well done game, and arguably stands undefeated in almost every metric used to judge a real time strategy game, even today - so this is by no means an automatic result of video gaming. But it is one possible result.
Kerbal Space Program (which reignited my passion for rocketry long after studying mechanics at university) and Dwarf Fortress (which is the source of 99% of my knowledge about minerals, ores and metal smelting) are two other examples I would have no trouble letting my kids play, once they are around... 12?
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