Jane McGonigal Quotes - Page 2

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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 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.

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  Powerful, Real, Challenges

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.11, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Playing Games, Loner

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.63, Penguin

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• My favorite part of running is the thinking time.

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  Running, Thinking, My Favorite

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• Games are such a powerful intervention in health and wellness.

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  Powerful, Wellness

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time.

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  Important, Pushing, Enough

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• Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.

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  Playing Games, Feel Good, About Yourself

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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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  Motivation, Inspiration, Suffering

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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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 develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight. Technologies, cultures, and climates may change, but our basic human needs and desires - to survive, to care for our families, and to lead happy, purposeful lives - remain the same.' p 5

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  Thinking, Past, Technology

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• The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

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  Stay Happy, Harder, Acquire

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.41, Penguin

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

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  Brain, Needs, Patterns

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.

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  Country, Brother, Reality

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• We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.

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  Games, Accepting, Escapists

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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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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  Motivation, Games, Play

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• I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

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  Games, Want, Designer

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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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  Games, World, Lawyer

  "Super Girl" by Whitney Joiner, www.elle.com. June 22, 2011.

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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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  Thinking, Games, People

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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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  Stress, Playing Games, Breathing

  "Can Video Games Solve Real Issues?". "TED Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 21, 2012.

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• I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.

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  People, Saint, Helping

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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• There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.

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  Games, People, Gamer

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

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  Energy, Pessimistic, Capability

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

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  Optimism, Desire, Belief

  "Gaming can make a better world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• Games are providing rewards that reality is not.

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  Reality, Games, Rewards

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.12, Penguin

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

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  Games, People, Economy

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