Recognizing contribution can reinforce cooperative behavior in human groups. This need may motivate requesting or offering specific feedback and making results visible. Reliable acknowledgement sustains morale and signals that effort matters.
Humans thrive on having their contributions noticed – acknowledging someone’s good work encourages them (and others) to keep cooperating. The need for acknowledgement may drive people to seek and give meaningful feedback and to publicize achievements or may result. Organizational studies find that when employees feel recognized for their efforts, their morale and engagement rise, which in turn reinforces cooperative behavior (see HBR, 2016: recognition boosts morale and performance). In practice, consistently acknowledging contributions shows individuals that their effort matters, thereby maintaining motivation and strengthening the group’s collaborative spirit.
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There is such a wide diversity of video games out there. Calming exploratory games, puzzle games, combat, story, single or multiplayer, etc. Once I get in touch with the need that is alive in me it’s fun to look for a game or game genre that might tend specifically to that.
Try a search online like poets.org. Search a key word related to what you’re experiencing right now. Find a poem you’re relating to and in the privacy of your room or car or closet (wherever you feel comfortable) and read the poem aloud to yourself. Let it gives you words in a time when you have none. Experience the validation that this artist understands also how you might be feeling right now and sees it as valid too.
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