Jane McGonigal

My favorite part of running is the thinking time.

— Jane McGonigal

You can't play the same game every day for years. New games are key.

— Jane McGonigal

There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.

— Jane McGonigal

Games are such a powerful intervention in health and wellness.

— Jane McGonigal

Games are providing rewards that reality is not.

— Jane McGonigal

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

— Jane McGonigal

Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.

— Jane McGonigal

When we know our strengths, we're more likely to use them.

— Jane McGonigal

I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'

— Jane McGonigal

I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would…

— Jane McGonigal

Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are…

— Jane McGonigal

The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

— Jane McGonigal

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

— Jane McGonigal

When parents or gamers ask me, 'What's the best game to play?' I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing…

— Jane McGonigal

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

— Jane McGonigal

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the…

— Jane McGonigal

The Gamifaction Movement is trying to help companies engage their audience and community by using game mechanics and wrapping them around shopping…

— Jane McGonigal

I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to…

— Jane McGonigal

It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress.…

— Jane McGonigal

“What if we started to live our real lives like gamers, lead our real businesses and communities like game designers, and think…

— Jane McGonigal

Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge -…

— Jane McGonigal

I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make…

— Jane McGonigal

“Over time, even the tiniest meaningful actions add up, each one bringing you closer to a life that is truer to your…

— Jane McGonigal

When we're in game worlds, we become the best version of ourselves, the most likely to help at a moment's notice, the…

— Jane McGonigal

Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling,…

— Jane McGonigal

“During this kind of highly structured, self-motivated hard work, Csikszentmihalyi wrote, we regularly achieve the greatest form of happiness available to human…

— Jane McGonigal

In the future, I think it's pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a…

— Jane McGonigal

If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games.…

— Jane McGonigal

“Some twenty-five hundred years ago, Herodotus looked back and saw the early games played by the Greeks as an explicit attempt to…

— Jane McGonigal

Surveys of thousands of gamers have shown that they're more likely to play real music if they play a music videogame. So…

— Jane McGonigal

The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded…

— Jane McGonigal

“The researchers worked with more than three thousand young gamers in total, and in all three studies they reached the same conclusion:…

— Jane McGonigal

“In 2004, researchers Martin Seligman and Christopher Peterson published Character Strengths and Virtues, a manual with twenty-four such categories, divided into six…

— Jane McGonigal

“Nesse’s research focuses on the evolutionary origins of depression. Why does depression exist at all? If it’s stayed in our gene pool…

— Jane McGonigal

I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.

— Jane McGonigal

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

— Jane McGonigal

In entertainment, we have a comfort level with crisis.

— Jane McGonigal

“A crowd carries the social authority to redefine norms.”

— Jane McGonigal

Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.

— Jane McGonigal

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

— Jane McGonigal