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When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.
Jane McGonigal
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Jane McGonigal
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 21
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The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.
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Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?
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Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.
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You can't play the same game every day for years. New games are key.
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Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
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If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.
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We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress.
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Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.
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I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.
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Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.
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We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.
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I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.
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Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time.
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I don't want to be a saint I just want to help people.
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The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.
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A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.
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There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.
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My favorite part of running is the thinking time.
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It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.
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Games are such a powerful intervention in health and wellness.
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