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  • Author: Alie Ward
  • Full Title: Smologies # 9﹕ GAMING With Jane McGonigal

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Experience of gaining self-efficacy in new areas. It can develop a kind of mindset that does translate. So if you are off and doing things that you’re bad at and then stay with it and get better as unless you have new skills and you acquire and resources and you have achieved, New Baltimore. (05:16) (View Highlight)review


And you have achieved New Baltimore all sounds. Do your brain gets better at looking at a difficult skill or task and saying let me try it because I have a great and long history of getting better at things that I bad at and that’s what gaming does for most people in the more different games you play. (05:33) (View Highlight)review


And the more different games you play, the more your brain gets used to being frustrated hanging in there, feeling optimistic in the face of setbacks. And that is the one generalizable positive impact of games that we see, no matter what kind of game you play sport challenging. (05:50) (View Highlight)review


Cooperative board game, you’re playing bridge, you’re playing a video game if we can help you get comfortable with not being good at something, trying using your skills and ability to get better at it. And then you do, if I get better, head back in translate to the rest of your life. So games help us get comfy with being a total newbie at something. So, (06:10) (View Highlight)review


They don’t see them as a Escapist. They don’t play games to ignore their problems or like shove down negative feelings or get away from people who are annoying them. Those people tend to not benefit because they see games as separate from reality. So they don’t bring the same eyes that to real life. And those are the type of players who (07:14) (View Highlight)review


Enable choir is it requires your brain to be actively focused on visualizing things that scare you. So one of the best treatments for anxiety in the moment is to just stop terminations to, to make a conscious decision, not to spend time and energy on these thoughts. And so a game on your phone. (08:16) (View Highlight)review


Start showing that people who played League of Legends regularly have a stronger social support network than just about any other gamer meaning. There are more people in their lives who will be there for them if they need advice. If they need help in reality like help moving, or if you know sistance physical assistance people. (09:31) (View Highlight)review


Gambling where he’s pulling the slot lover, scratching off a lottery ticket. You can actually get better and improve your chances of winning in video gaming. So it is a completely different psychological experience, a different neurological experience because it is not delusional to stay engaged. (11:21) (View Highlight)review


Aura leveling out the system or a kind of cooperation opportunity where their multiplier is. If you can if you and your friends are doing it together, you can add some game design elements that help people do more of what they want. And if they do it, they’re going to experience and upward spiral of skill and abilities so they can maintain (14:29) (View Highlight)review


First takes over your brain so that you are flashing back to it. It can prevent flashbacks associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. And there’s actually increasing usage of interest within 24 hours of a traumatic event that if you play Tetris within 24 hours and before you go to sleep, (15:56) (View Highlight)review


Increasing usage of Tetris, within 24 hours of a traumatic event that if you play Tetris, within 24 hours, and before you go to sleep, that your brain is more likely to flashback on Tetris, in the event, which reduces the rate of traumatic flashbacks in the future. (16:05) (View Highlight)review


You cannot go wrong. If you are playing the game with them. That’s that’s the first and most important rule. There’s no too soon. If you are playing with them and talking to them about it and for as long as you can continue this the better, so even if it’s a single player game. (21:27) (View Highlight)review


Play games on physical health and well-being over 20 hours per week. So that’s just another kind of safezone it and in cases of serious pathological, gameplay or people are staying up all night or not doing the school work and looking for a job. I always say Get it that’s in 20 hours or less do not take the game away. Okay. (22:55) (View Highlight)review


I always say Get it that’s in 20 hours or less do not take the game away. Okay, so there’s a sweet spot of 20 hours or less a week, but your mileage may vary and really just make sure that you’re prioritizing the big things, sleep rest, family, and friends, time your school work, your big goals and (23:10) (View Highlight)review


Who has less empathy for people, they perceive is weaker than them. And who are kind of bootier and may yell at you or be grumpy to you. And you’re just like, why are you so? Obnoxious are such a jerk for that. Kind of gameplay is when you play some indie is very aggressive, seeing games against strangers, who you don’t know. (25:29) (View Highlight)review


We don’t know who they are. So we’re playing anonymously online. We’re trying to beat them. We build up in her mind through this, like horrible people. We hate them and we feel antagonistic towards then. I’m in those emotions that we build up the frustration, the anger and hatred. It’s not like you just walk away from the game and they evaporate so they can linger love you. Like I’m going to stimuli violence. (25:52) (View Highlight)review


We can sit and experience it together and we have the sort of memorable moments in our history. I’m like, when we found portal, when we found braids, when we found World of Warcraft. I really love developing a skill with him together and having that that novelty and that exploration. And curiosity. There’s so many positive emotions. (28:32) (View Highlight)review


Tea and that exploration and curiosity. There’s so many positive emotions that we feel when we play. And when you can feel them with someone you love, it’s really powerful Bow. Wow, so ask smart people playful questions, cuz there’s a lot more to video games that any of us previously thought. So we learned that they can. (28:47) (View Highlight)review