A trick to keep a toddler focused and engaged on the task: give them faux agency.

  • A trick to keep a toddler focused and engaged on the task: give them faux agency.
    • Not: "Are you ready to get dressed for school?"
    • "Do you want to pick the red shirt or the blue shirt?"
    • You take for granted that the thing we're doing is getting ready for school,
    • But because they have a choice, they feel engaged, and go with the flow.
      • Agency in the small, but not in the large.
    • The agency is hollow.
      • They feel like you are exercising agency but it's almost entirely superficial.
    • I wonder if that will happen more and more for adults in AI-powered tools.
      • "Do you want the red drink or the blue drink?"

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