To me one of the ultimate puzzles in life is the motivation for working on puzzles. Case in point: Every day I work on solving a word puzzle that I see in the newspaper.<\/p>\n
I spend time working on that puzzle even though I receive no reward other than solving the puzzle. But it gets even stranger than that.<\/p>\n
I’ve realized that I work on the daily puzzle precisely because<\/i> it is a perfectly recreational activity. If someone were to offer to pay me to engage in exactly that same activity every day, I would probably not do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To me one of the ultimate puzzles in life is the motivation for working on puzzles. Case in point: Every day I work on solving a word puzzle that I see in the newspaper. I spend time working on that puzzle even though I receive no reward other than solving the puzzle. But it gets … Continue reading “Puzzles”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28886,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885\/revisions\/28886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}