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Jane McGonigal Biography

Jane McGonigal (born October 21, 1977) is an American game designer and author who advocates the use of mobile and digital technology to channel positive attitudes[which?] and collaboration in a real world context.

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Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

Challenges, Like, Obesity, Things

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.

Benefits, Changes, Games, Maximize, Play, Thinking

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.

Motivation, Real, Inspiration, Make, Online, Life

You need to develop mental habits that allow you to activate the same brain patterns we activate during gameplay.

Brain, Needs, Patterns, Mental, Allow

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.

Determination, Inspirational, Motivational, Reach, Tackle, Tough

Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

Become, Inspirational, Motivational, Self, Selves, True

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 happiness.

Future, Games, Prevent, Real, Suffering

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

Economies, Economy, Games, People, Popping

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. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.

Challenges, Environments, Pleasures, Powerful, Real, Virtual

It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.

Games, Loner, Machines, Playing, Playing Games, Thinking

When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us 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.

Become, Failure, Games, Likely, Long, Trying

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.

Book, Playing Games, Regret, Teach, True, Wasting

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.

Stress, Focus, Weakness, Afraid, Facing

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

Availability, Decrease, Dramatic, Oil

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

Biggest, Escapist, Games, Playing Games, Waste, Wasting Time

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.

Ideas, Lone, People, Real, Same, Social

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.

Inspiration, Motivation, Negative, Positive, Three

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

Capability, Clinically, Energy, Pessimistic, Sense

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Disconnected, Games, Playing Games, Reality

I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.

Buy, Games, People, Possible, Thinking

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