Jane McGonigal Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to…
• 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…
• Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• I want gaming to be something that everybody does, because they understand that games can be a real solution to problems and a real source…
• If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully…
• 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…
• Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.
• Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.
• Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.
• Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
• Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.
• 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…
• Compared with games, reality is disconnected.
• Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.
• 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…

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