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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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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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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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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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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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There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.
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I don't want to be a saint I just want to help people.
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Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.
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There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.
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Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.
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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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Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
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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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If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.
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I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.
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