"A game is an opportunity to focus our……" — Jane McGonigal
"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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48 Quotes by Jane McGonigal
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My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real…
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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…
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It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to…
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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…
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Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.
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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…
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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…
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I want gaming to be something that everybody does, because they understand that games can be a real solution to…
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If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health…
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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…
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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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Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.
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