Jane McGonigal Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'”
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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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“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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“Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.”
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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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“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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“Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.”
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“When we're in game worlds, we become the best version of ourselves, the most likely to help at a moment's notice, the most likely to stick with a problem as long at it takes, to get up after failure and try again.”
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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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“My favorite part of running is the thinking time.”
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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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“Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.”
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“Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.”
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“I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.”
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“Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.”
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“The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.”
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“There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.”
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“My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.”
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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've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.”
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“I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.”
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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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“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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“The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.”
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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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“Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.”
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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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“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 of happiness. I want games to be something everybody learns how to design and develop, because they understand that games are a real platform for change and getting things done. And I want families, schools, companies, industries, cities, countries, and the whole world to come together to play them, because we’re finally making games that tackle real dilemmas and improve real lives.”
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