I have mixed, if not negative, feelings about the idea behind this application. In my opinion, it deteriorates an already existing societal situation in which people only assess something as valuable when it is monetized, and then behave accordingly. This applies to many aspects of human life and addresses many ongoing debates, for example about public VS private education. There are many people who argue that when something is free it loses its value. By further encouraging this relationship of dependence between money and value, people are driven further away from taking upon an active role in their own lives in this case, but also in their communities in other cases. On the contrary, they base their behavior on external means for dictating to them how important it is to set goals and staying consistent. 

Another aspect of this application that clashes with my beliefs is the (lack of) pedagogical thinking and educational value. I believe that posing a "threat" (loss of money) as a source of motivation for the users to act on, is counterproductive to developing high-order thinking skills and competencies such as self-regulation and metacognition and mostly targets low-level skills. I think that even if users gain time management skills through this application, these skills will not be easily transferable to other real life situations when this extrinsic source of motivation ceases to exist.  

I found the possiblity of using SuperBetter in schools really interesting, and it brought back some thoughts from my educational experiences.

Specifically, throughout K-12 education in Greece, especially in lower and upper secondary, we were supposed to have student counseling services and educational psychologists present in the school, but that service was either not visible to us or not offered at all. This application made me think that it could possibly help tackle the issue of lack of human resources in public education.

I don't think it could replace mental health professionals, but it could possibly be used with the assistance of someone who is not a professional of that field in schools for an initial evaluation of the child's mental health situation and later referral if needed. 

Also the "Play with Family" potential was really interesting for me,since it might help facilitate conversations inside people's homes that are generally considered "taboo". I believe many people, children specifically struggle with talking to their parents about the troubles that they face emotionally, and on the other hand many parents struggle to grasp concepts of mental health such as depression or anxiety, because in the generations that they grew up there was zero visibility on mental health issues and they would mostly be considered in society as signs of weakness, therefore were never really talked about. (this is a generalization, of course there were exceptions, as there are now).

Therefore, technology in that way could be a way of easing difficult topics into families.