{"author":"Jane McGonigal","author_id":"Jane+McGonigal","total_quotes":17,"quotes":[{"text":"Over time, even the tiniest meaningful actions add up, each one bringing you closer to a life that is truer to your dreams and free of regret.","author":"Jane McGonigal","tags":["dreams","inspirational","intentional-living","time"],"id":69281,"author_id":"Jane+McGonigal"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jane McGonigal","tags":["depression","gameplay","psychology","video-games"],"id":82627,"author_id":"Jane+McGonigal"},{"text":"The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.","author":"Jane McGonigal","tags":["depression","play"],"id":166641,"author_id":"Jane+McGonigal"},{"text":"We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.","author":"Jane McGonigal","tags":["moving","new","collective "],"id":180953,"author_id":"Jane+McGonigal"},{"text":"Today, I look forward and 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.","author":"Jane McGonigal","tags":["kindlehighlight"],"id":185728,"author_id":"Jane+McGonigal"},{"text":"Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.","author":"Jane McGonigal","tags":["success","optimism","belief "],"id":191852,"author_id":"Jane+McGonigal"},{"text":"For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.","author":"Jane McGonigal","tags":["life","time","day "],"id":208037,"author_id":"Jane+McGonigal"},{"text":"Nesse’s research focuses on the evolutionary origins of depression. Why does depression exist at all? If it’s stayed in our gene pool for so long, he argues, there must be some evolutionary benefit. Nesse believes that depression may be an adaptive mechanism meant to prevent us from falling victim to blind optimism—and squandering resources on the wrong goals.11 It’s to our evolutionary advantage not to waste time and energy on goals we can’t realistically achieve. And so when we have no clear way to make productive progress, our neurological systems default to a state of low energy...","author":"Jane McGonigal","tags":["kindlehighlight"],"id":235061,"author_id":"Jane+McGonigal"},{"text":"My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.","author":"Jane McGonigal","tags":["mom","school","students "],"id":257453,"author_id":"Jane+McGonigal"},{"text":"The research proves what gamers already know: within the limits of our own endurance, we would rather work hard than be entertained. Perhaps that’s why gamers spend less time watching television than anyone else on the planet.","author":"Jane McGonigal","tags":["entertainment","hard-work"],"id":348095,"author_id":"Jane+McGonigal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}