I remember the first year at the Game Developers Conference I wore these big red giant knee-high boots. Nobody cared. You can wear anything you love, because that's what you do in games. You make yourself who you want to be.
Jane McgonigalRead
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Urgent optimism encourages immediate action in the face of challenges, fueled by hope for success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of a proactive mindset when confronting obstacles. It suggests that having a combination of urgency and optimistic belief in our capabilities can inspire us to take swift action towards overcoming difficulties and achieving our goals.
Themes
OptimismActionSuccessHopeObstacles
In practice
Example use cases
Use this quote in a team meeting to encourage colleagues to tackle challenges with a positive attitude.
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All quotes →We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.
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When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.
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It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.
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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.
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The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.
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