When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves - … - Jane McGonigal

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Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Jane McGonigal

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.

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

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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.

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