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Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.
— Jane McGonigal
The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.
— Kelly McGonigal
As Deb Lemire, president of the Association for Size Diversity and Health, says, If shame worked, there'd be no fat people.
— Kelly McGonigal
We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress.
— Jane McGonigal
The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.
— Kelly McGonigal
People come up with resolutions that don't reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.
— Kelly McGonigal
In entertainment, we have a comfort level with crisis.
— Jane McGonigal
Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.
— Kelly McGonigal
A short practice that you do every day is better than a long practice you keep putting off to tomorrow.
— Kelly McGonigal
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
When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.
— Jane McGonigal
Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.
— Jane McGonigal
The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.
— Jane McGonigal
Self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it.
— Kelly McGonigal
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.
— Jane McGonigal
There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.
— Jane McGonigal
When parents or gamers ask me, 'What's the best game to play?' I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing online.
— Jane McGonigal
We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.
— Jane McGonigal
I don't want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world.
— Jane McGonigal
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.
— Jane McGonigal
I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'
— Jane McGonigal
Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.
— Jane McGonigal
You can't play the same game every day for years. New games are key.
— Jane McGonigal
My favorite part of running is the thinking time.
— Jane McGonigal
Feeling burdened rather than uplifted by everyday duties is more a mindset than a measure of what is going on in your life.
— Kelly McGonigal
You need to develop mental habits that allow you to activate the same brain patterns we activate during gameplay.
— Jane McGonigal
When we know our strengths, we're more likely to use them.
— Jane McGonigal
Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?
— Jane McGonigal
If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.
— Jane McGonigal
I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things
— Jane McGonigal
Though our survival system doesn't always work to our advantage, it is a mistake to think we should conquer the primitive self completely.
— Kelly McGonigal
I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.
— 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
A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.
— Jane McGonigal
The intelligent want self-control; children want candy. - RUMI
— Kelly McGonigal
Even if you never increase your physical or social resilience, seeking out more positive emotions every day alone can add a full decade to your life.
— Jane McGonigal
Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.
— Jane McGonigal
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.
— Jane McGonigal
My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.
— Kelly McGonigal
When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.
— Kelly McGonigal
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.
— Jane McGonigal
Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing.
— Jane McGonigal
Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.
— Jane McGonigal
There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.
— Jane McGonigal
There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.
— Jane McGonigal
Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
— 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
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
Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.
— Jane McGonigal
Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.
— Jane McGonigal
When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses - not your long-term goals - will guide your choices.
— Kelly McGonigal
[ ... ]while we all have the capacity to do harder things, we also have the desire to do exactly the opposite.
— Kelly McGonigal
I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.
— Jane McGonigal
We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.
— Jane McGonigal
Games are providing rewards that reality is not.
— Jane McGonigal
He loves productivity seminars because they make him feel so productive - never mind that nothing has been produced yet.)
— Kelly McGonigal
Stress Helps You Learn and Grow
— Kelly McGonigal
The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.
— Jane McGonigal
Compared with games, reality is disconnected.
— Jane McGonigal
We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today
— Kelly McGonigal
Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.
— Jane McGonigal