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'SuperBetter' is fundamentally about a mind shift. It's about claiming your power to be in charge of how you spend your time and energy, and focusing it on the things that matter the most to you. Focusing on things that will bring real happiness, real well-being.

'SuperBetter' is fundamentally about a mind shift. It's about claiming your power to be in charge of how you spend your time and energy, and focusing it on the things that matter the most to you. Focusing on things that will bring real happiness, real well-being.

Jane McGonigal

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don't sit around.

Jane McGonigal

Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.

Jane McGonigal

I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.

Jane McGonigal

Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.

Jane McGonigal

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.'

Jane McGonigal

Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.

Jane McGonigal

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

Jane McGonigal

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.

Jane McGonigal

Surveys of thousands of gamers have shown that they're more likely to play real music if they play a music videogame. So it's an interesting relationship where the games aren't replacing something we do in real life, they're serving as a springboard to a goal we might have in real life, like learning to play an instrument.

Jane McGonigal

In entertainment, we have a comfort level with crisis.

Jane McGonigal

My favorite part of running is the thinking time.

Jane McGonigal

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Jane McGonigal

I remember the first year at the Game Developers Conference I wore these big red giant knee-high boots. Nobody cared. You can wear anything you love, because that's what you do in games. You make yourself who you want to be.

Jane McGonigal

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

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I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.

Jane McGonigal

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

Jane McGonigal

I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'

Jane McGonigal

'Superbetter' looks more like a social media platform or a social network than a typical video game. You know, there aren't any 3-d spaces to explore. You don't have this avatar that you're building up. It's more about thinking like a gamer.

Jane McGonigal

In the future, I think it's pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a part of global dialog, global business, and global creativity. People who know how to negotiate collective intelligence networks are going to be in a good position to contribute to global society.

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 as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.

Jane McGonigal

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

Jane McGonigal

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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