So here is one of the things that I do to reduce frustration in my life, small frustration that it is:
I play this game called Wordscapes on my iPad almost every afternoon or evening. I do it so that I can say that I play games and also to exercise my brain at the same time with the cool word game on my device.
It offers little awards when you start out if you been away for a day or more. And one of the things it offers is a present that you have to tap on to collect. It gives you coins in different amounts, 10, 15, 20 or even 30 or 40 points. But it always gives you a choice of three boxes when it opens that window.
When I first started playing this game I would try to pick the box with the most coins in it and I would always end up getting 10 coins. Every once in a while I'd hit something bigger but usually only got 10 coins. I started to feel like this result happened because I kept picking a different box and it would be different every day.
To reduce my frustration when starting the game I started just picking the same present box in the same position every day. I've done that for more than a year and I've had a varied response from the app. Sometimes I get 10 coins, sometimes I get 20 or 30 points. But it's always changing and never the same even though I keep picking the same exact box on the screen.
Silly, I know. But that is one of the ways that I reduce friction and frustration in my life. Even though I like variety I tend to find a pattern and stick to it. Pretty funny!
