Jane McGonigal Quotes
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We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress.
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Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
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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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My favorite part of running is the thinking time.
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When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.
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I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things
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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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When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.
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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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Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.
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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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My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.
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Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.
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Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.
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Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.
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Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.
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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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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.
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Games are providing rewards that reality is not.
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A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.
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Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.
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My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.
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Over time, the games we play can change how we think and what we're capable of. And it's easy to maximize the benefits so the changes are positive.
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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 seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.
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I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.
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A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.
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If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games. You have not been wasting your time. You have been building up a wealth of virtual experience that, as the first half of this book will show you, can teach you about your true self: what your core strengths are, what really motivates you, and what make you happiest.
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Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.
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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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