# Staying positive: the 'Super Mario effect' and Pogba's advice

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/22/
- Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:28:13–1:30:41)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=5293s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/

**Topics:** Goals, habits and willpower

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** An interlude on positivity: learning as a game and a footballer's advice on gratitude and goals.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth jokes about a meme of the Trump video, then describes a talk on the 'Super Mario effect' of learning: research suggesting people learn better when something is framed as a game with no negativity attached than when they stand to lose something. He then plays a clip someone sent him of the footballer Paul Pogba giving advice: remember where you come from and where you are going, keep three main goals, remember that you are healthy and that others are not, and that there are always people worse off. He says he loves it.

## Sources and names cited

- Paul Pogba

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:28:13–1:30:41)

[1:27:35] [Laughter] you know so and the person translating it he says do do die die do do do die die die do you know that's the [Laughter] what to do do do die did i do so people let's see what's going on zebra jesus yes they are it's all about who did love

[1:28:12] indeed indeed indeed so what is going on uh i like what do you think about your naughty naughty meme speaking about that i did have uh was it over i know your pain i know you're hurt right so i had an election this is a trump go home it was a landslide election this you know this is actually something interesting i was watching this um it's uh if you want to check it out on a side note

[1:28:51] but it was speaking about the super mario effect of learning and what it was saying basically in essence was that if you um if you if something is less made to look as it's if something has no negativity associated with it with its learning it's actually much easier like research shows that it's easier to learn so people or 10 people tend to learn it better so if they saw it as a game they actually learn it better than if there's

[1:29:31] some win or lose associated with i mean actual like imagine they were losing money or they're losing they're gonna get in trouble or they have to do they actually learn it less effectively i found that very fascinating but the how to stay positive actual uh thing i wanted to show you was here this was pogba once again somebody sent this to me giving some advice always always remember where you come from 100 where you're going the way you're going three main goals right exactly i give you just no religious not just

[1:30:08] normal goals it's general life goals and remember that you're healthy and remember the people that they're not healthy exactly there was always worse than us i always remember don't be naughty right so there you go that's just an example somebody had sent that to me just a couple of days ago so i thought i'd cheer it i yeah i love it i mean you know and absolutely it's it's it's amazing isn't it this day and age you say something

[1:30:40] and where it goes another announcement that um dr abdul majid i had reached out to him following his reply to my bukhari gate i did see he'd made a video saying an invitation accepted and i've reached out to him saying look let's this month let's have a mind trap come on mine trap let's have a chat yeah you know chat i love to talk so he has uh uh accepted he said cool

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 1zgHntbMPis/s/22. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/22/

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