![]() Her TED talks on games have been viewed more than ten million times. Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times. Her first book, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, was a best seller. Jane McGonigal, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, CA. Do you need a more playful approach in your life? This Week’s Guest: You’ll also learn about particular computer games that have been developed specifically to help people meet serious health challenges, such as the game Re-Mission, for kids with cancer. Find out how to adopt a challenge mindset and how activating power-ups can translate into real-life benefits. You can use the gameful approach she describes to transform your own life. ![]() To give herself achievable goals and make her recovery more attainable, she invented a game she calls SuperBetter. When computer game expert Jane McGonigal suffered a concussion, she had a hard time recovering from the constant headaches, fatigue, confusion and depression. ![]()
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