Jane McGonigal Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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  Real, Play, Games

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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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  Games, Differences, Goal

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.23, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.

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  Play, People, Benefits

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• 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.

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  Stress, Focus, Weakness

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• You can't play the same game every day for years. New games are key.

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  Keys, Years, Games

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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

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  Oil, Availability, Dramatic

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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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• 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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• 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

  Optimism, Desire, Belief

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

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