
The Tetris Effect and Positivity Training
I was at a training course this week run by Tony Brooks, He introduced me to "The Tetris effect" which is said to occur when people devote so much time and attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. Some people credit Neil Gaiman with first describing the Tetris effect in a 1987 poem "Virus in digital dreams," but the expression is usually traced back to a 1994 Wired article. People who played Tetris for a prolonged amount of