Quotes by Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal

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

Availability

Dramatic

Oil

A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.

Emotional

Opportunity

Opposites

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.

Inspiration

Motivation

Suffering

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.

Enough

Important

Pushing

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

Inspirational

Motivational

Self

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

Capability

Energy

Pessimistic

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Games

Playing Games

Reality

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.

Brother

Country

Reality

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

Games

Lawyer

World

Every game we play activates our brain, and it’s the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

Games

Play

Real

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About Yourself

Accepting

Accomplish

Acquire

Anxiety

Availability

Belief

Believe

Benefits

Book

Boost

Brain

Breathing

Brother

Capability

Challenges

Change

Civilization

Country

Design

Designer

Desire

Determination

Differences

Dramatic

Economy

Emotional

Energy

Enough

Epic

Escapists

Feel Good

Focus

Fun

Gamer

Games

Goal

Growing

Growing Up

Harder

Helping

Humanity

I Realized

Ideas

Important

Inspiration

Inspirational

Keys

Knows

Lawyer

The Future Blueprint

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The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

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Quotes by Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal

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

A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.

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.

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.

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

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

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

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

Every game we play activates our brain, and it’s the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

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