131 Quotes by Jane McGonigal

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

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.

When we're in game worlds, we 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.

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.

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

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

If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

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.