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This episode is a replay from The Existential Stoic podcast library. Enjoy! Are you struggling? Are you stressed, depressed...unmotivated? Do you have trouble completing goals or meeting deadlines? In this episode, Danny and Randy discuss psychological flexibility and making your life a game. Listen now and start gamifying your life!  We discuss Jane McGonigal's book, Super Better, in this episode. Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: existentialstoic@protonmail.com  Danny, Randy, and their good friend, Russell, created a new podcast, CodeNoobs, for anyone interested in tech and learning how to code. Listen to CodeNoobs now online, CodeNoobs-podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, it's just you and me in today's podcast, and I've got a little secret to share with you. Before I spill the beans, I want to say how much I appreciate the people who support and give feedback on our podcast releases. I constantly listen to what Ripplers say. To those suggesting another solo episode, this one's for you.  By this point, I can't even count how many impressive guests have graced our podcast. Each guest adds a unique stroke and color to the masterpiece we're building to share valuable yet entertaining information with you, Rippler.  It all doesn't stop at the interviews. I kept in touch with our amazing guests, and guess what? Some conversations turned into new connections. That's the power of Rippling working its magic! I'm completely floored by all the big names and inspiring people reaching out to express their interest in being on the podcast. Even now, I'm getting excited about the valuable stories and insights our future guests have to share.  Now, are you game for the little secret?  I won't give it all away, but here's a sneak peek behind the scenes. A game is under development for you, Rippler! This game will be an avenue to level up your connections and relationships. After all, that's the real essence of The Ripple Effect. In this video, I discussed an overview of how it works. Let curiosity get the best of you, and finish this video to know more about what's coming!  Ripple with me: Instagram: http://instagram.com/rippleon Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rippleon X: https://twitter.com/rippleon Website: http://www.ripplecentral.com Take the first step towards better relationships and personal fulfillment by being a Ripple Connect + Grow member: https://ripplecentral.com/connect-grow-coaching Join our ever-growing community of Ripplers in The Pond: https://ripplecentral.com/pond   To inquire about my availability for conference keynotes, corporate training or performance coaching please contact info@ripplecentral.com.  

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Are you struggling? Are you stressed, depressed...unmotivated? Do you have trouble completing goals or meeting deadlines? In this episode, Danny and Randy discuss psychological flexibility and making your life a game. Listen now and start gamifying your life!  We discuss Jane McGonigal's book, Super Better, in this episode.  Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: existentialstoic@protonmail.com  Seeking Your Insight... (google.com)

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube***EPISODE DESCRIPTIONHow do companies like UiPath, KPMG, and Deutsche Telekom onboard new employees?Through gamification. Chambr is a digital platform used in 22 countries for community building, team bonding, and learning sales and leadership skills. But the road to launching Chambr could have ended when companies canceled their contracts due to the pandemic. Forced to pivot and go digital, in this chat Gabriela shares the highs and lows of her entrepreneurial journey. And of course, we laugh A LOT of laughs in the process. TIMESTAMPS0:55 – 25k in cash or dinner with Rene Brown2:00 – a brilliant prank you did?2:58 – something that really annoys you?3:35 – an unusual way you have either earned or saved money?4:22 – how did you get started in creating games for HR departments?7:05 – how did you get your first in the door with Deutsch Telecom and UiPath?8:57 – how did you guys pivot when Covid happened?10:10 – what is a game like for a new hire at KPMG?12:00 – is Chambr global?12:48 – what are you responsible for at Chambr?13:27 – are you bootstrapped?14:35 – if I were to give you $10k to enhance your business, what would you do?15:10 – what tool are you using that you are excited about?16:20 – what are you reading now that has blown your mind? – Superbetter by Jane M.17:04 – what is one habit that you have cultivated that has served you well?20:35 - what was the highest stakes negotiation you have ever been in?​​***CONNECTChambr's website:https://www.playlearn.games/chambr

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"In this episode of the Boom podcast, host Boom sits down for a discussion about the highly-anticipated new update for the popular video game Witcher 3. They also delve into the thought-provoking book Superbetter by Jane McGonigal, exploring the ideas and techniques it presents for improving mental and emotional resilience. Whether you're a fan of the Witcher series or simply looking for ways to become "superbetter" in your own life, this episode has something for everyone." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/boomtap/message

SuperBetter Uses The Psychology Of Game Play To Empower Youth And Young Adults With Keith WakemanKeith Wakeman is the CEO & Co-Founder of SuperBetter, a digital education & mental well-being company. The SuperBetter framework uses the psychology of gameplay to empower youth & young adults to build skills, overcome obstacles & achieve their goals. Published studies show that playing SuperBetter improves resilience and mental health. Over 1 million people have played the SuperBetter mobile & web app. SuperBetter is a recent winner of The World Economic Forum Youth Mental Health Challenge.If you're interested in empowering youth mental health, SuperBetter invites you to become a financial stakeholder in their company. Learn more and reserve your spot here. Support the showRate the show: If you enjoyed this episode, please consider providing an honest rating of the show here www.mentalhealthtodayshow.com/reviews/new . Disclaimer: The Mental Health Today Show is for educational purposes only and should not be interpreted as therapy. If you are seeking therapy, please contact a licensed therapist for help.

Show Notes  Ben nearly ends up in the wrong state while trying to get home in time for his daughter's birthday, Josh apologizes for a sin of omission, the hosts solve philosophy by taking on another round of trolley problems, and they review the book Superbetter by Jane McGonigal which looks at the science of … Continue reading "Episode 79 – Is Gaming Good For You"

The game of life may seem hard to play, but maybe we've got the rules mixed up! SuperBetter - invented by world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal - is a global leader in using the psychology of game play to build life skills, overcome obstacles & achieve goals. Over 1 million people have played the SuperBetter web and mobile app, and on this episode, Hersh chats with CEO and Co-Founder Keith Wakeman. Keith is a purpose-driven innovator and brand builder, who has led development and launch of over $1B of new products in health, wellness and food. In response to the decade-long decline in mental health among youth & young adults in the US and globally, he is leading SuperBetter's expansion to play a major role in ending the youth mental health crisis.

The game of life may seem hard to play, but maybe we've got the rules mixed up! SuperBetter - invented by world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal - is a global leader in using the psychology of game play to build life skills, overcome obstacles & achieve goals. Over 1 million people have played the SuperBetter web and mobile app, and on this episode, Hersh chats with  CEO and Co-Founder Keith Wakeman.  Keith is a purpose-driven innovator and brand builder, who has led development and launch of over $1B of new products in health, wellness and food. In response to the decade-long decline in mental health among youth & young adults in the US and globally, he is leading SuperBetter's expansion to play a major role in ending the youth mental health crisis. His efforts are recognized by The World Economic Forum which recently named SuperBetter 1 of 14 top innovators globally in youth mental health.Key Takeaways from his interview with Hersh:Scientific studies show that playing SuperBetter increases resilience and reduces anxiety & depression. SuperBetter is recommended by schools, colleges, employers, therapists & peers. Find SuperBetter on Republic, a platform that gives people the power to invest in the future they believe in.Additional Links:Join 8 million people who have watched Jane McGonigal's TED Talk with her story of inventing SuperBetterCheck out the website and play SuperBetterFollow Keith on Twitterhttps://republic.com/superbetter?utm_source=superbetter&utm_medium=truthtastesfunny&utm_campaign=issuer_ref 

Guest: Jules Johnson And we're back with Season 2, Episode Five of the Undeniable Level Up Podcast.  For those who missed our last episode, we had the chance to introduce and speak with AJ Franco, a very close friend of ours who discussed how to "Fake it Til You Make It".  AJ shared his personal success story and how he found a way to climb the corporate ladder, going from warehouse associate to General Manager of a Fortune 500 food distribution business.  Today, we are here to discuss how to "Handle Stress Like a Boss"!   Unmanaged stress is harmful.  Harmful to the point that your health can be impacted negatively.  Symptoms like headaches, backpain, fatigue, lack of sleep.  These things can wreak havoc on your body, cause you to have trouble concentrating and pull your focus away from critical tasks.  It can cause obesity, increase your blood pressure and lead to heart disease.  Yes, stress can literally kill you if you do not manage it. Stressors come from a variety of directions in our day to day.  We experience stressors at out job, as we deal with critical deadlines, pressure to perform, and work volume as we all are forced to do more with less.  This includes 60, 70 and sometimes 80 hour work weeks.  Stressors come from our home lives with sick children , school and sporting events, family time and maintaining relationships with those we love.  Stressors come from our finances as we struggle to earn, save and manage our finances effectively.   Stressors come from our phones with constant news of war, police shootings, increasing crime statistics and inflation.  There is no shortage of stressors in our current day and age.Your ability to handle stress is critical to your success.   And to speak about handling stress like a boss, we have a very special guest today, Jules Johnson.  Welcome to the show Jules. Jules definitely has a high-stress job.  As the Assistant District Attorney for the Harris County in Houston, Texas, Jules' primary focus is prosecuting police brutality complaints, police shootings and other police crimes.  With the level of coverage that we have seen when it comes to these unfortunate events, you can only imagine the level of stress that his job puts on his shoulders. Q: Jules, did you grow up in Texas?  Danzae (Dan-zay) Pace is quoted as saying, "stress is the trash of modern life.  We all generate it, but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life". It is important to understand the different methods available to us for managing and dealing with stress.  The more capable we are of managing our stress, the more we are able to get after our goals and objectives, and therefore, the higher the probability that we will achieve success. To assist with that, we have 14 steps that you can take to assist you with handling stress.  The first step is to understand the signs of stress on your body.  Stress can present as: low energy or fatigue headaches insomnia changes in appetite digestive issues rapid heart rate sweating low self-esteem loss of sex drive frequent illnesses  Q: Have you ever experienced any of these symptoms associated with stress?  What was causing it?  How did you deal with it?  What was the outcome?   The second step is to document or write down your stressors.  This is even more important if you are feeling stressed and can't truly pinpoint what the cause of that stress is.  Keeping a journal is a great way to identify your stressors and create a positive method for managing it. Q:  Do you keep a journal?  Has it assisted with dealing with stress?   The third step is to take time to re-energize and recharge.  Find an activity or an action that allows you to reset your internal batteries.  This can be going to the gym, training jiu jitsu, going for a drive, reading a book, writing poetry.  What ever it is for you, find that thing that allows you to ground yourself in the present and reset yourself. Q: What do you do to reset and recharge? The fourth step is to manage your time properly.  Poor time management is a huge contributor to stress.  There is nothing more stressful than running late for an important event, or missing a critical deadline.  Being able to manage your time will greatly assist you in minimizing your stress.   Q:  What do you do to help with time management?  Are you a procrastinator?  The fifth step is to find work life balance.  When your work life balance is out of whack, the portion that is under supported can contribute to your stressors.  This is always easier said than done.  Being deliberate in managing overtime, scheduling personal time, and managing your time to ensure you keep track of important dates, appointments and scheduled activities will all help in reducing stressors from your work and personal life. Q: How do you manage work life balance in your current role?  Is this something that you struggle with?  Are there times when you've had to sacrifice one over the other?  How did that work out?   The sixth step is to learn to view the cup as half full as opposed to half empty.  Words are powerful.  Negative words will result in negative feelings.  Learn to put a positive perspective on those things that may initially appear to be negative.  For example, if you have to work late and will not be home to cook dinner, you can call you significant other and invite them to dinner out, or offer to pick up dinner on the way home.  Instead of looking at challenges as problems view them as opportunities to stretch and challenge yourself. Q: Are you an optimist or a pessimist?  Is that something you think you can change?  How does that impact how you feel and handle stress?  Ho does that impact those around you?The seventh step is have a power circle. You are the sum of the 5 people you spend the most time around.  Creating a strong power circle can make a world of difference.  Your power circle should be made up of friends and family who add value to your life.  They should be good influences, be strong moral compasses, and be honest with you when giving feedback and offering advice.  Anyone who blocks your shine, doesn't add value or is a negative influence or brings negativity into your circle should be removed.   Q:  Do you have a power circle?  Who are the top 3 individuals in your circle and why have you chosen them?  Have you ever had to eliminate someone from your circle or needed to and couldn't?  Why?  How did that play out?  How did that impact your trajectory? The eighth step is to remember to self-care.  This means taking care of yourself.  The eight dimension of wellness are: Emotional Spiritual Intellectual Physical Environmental Financial Occupational Social All eight dimensions are equally important and you should attempt to maintain a balanced level of health across all eight dimensions. Q:  Which of these eight dimensions are you killing it in?  Which of these do you feel you need more work on?   The ninth step is to learn how to relax.  This can be accomplished in a variety of ways to include meditation, deep breathing exercises, listening to calming music, getting a massage, going for a walk.  These are all methods of focusing on the present and quieting your mind.   Q:  What do you do to quiet your mind when things are beginning to spiral out of control? The tenth step is to remind yourself that perfection is not achievable.  Often people who claim to be perfectionist run into challenges with meeting deadlines.  If you find yourself overworking a project because it has to be perfect, you need to asses the reason why you are attempting perfection.  You may find that you are actually afraid of failure and being a perfectionist is just a cover.  Learn to give yourself a realistic timeline and when the project is completed to the best of your capabilities, turn it in.  Learn to look at failure as an opportunity to learn and improve. Q:  Do you consider yourself a perfectionist?  Do you someone who claims to be a perfectionist?  How do you manage a perfectionist? The eleventh step is to go on vacation.  Often we forget that we need a break from the day in and day out rat race in order to reset and avoid burnout.  It is too easy to forget to work in time for you and your loved ones.  Plan a vacation, buy the tickets in January and commit to the vacation in July or September.  Force yourself to take a much needed break and leave your laptop and work hone behind. Q: When was the last time you took a vacation?  How do you ensure that you take regular vacations?    The twelfth step is to get support from a mentor, coach or a leader.  Gaining perspective is critical to managing stress.  Speaking with someone who has dealt with the same issue you are dealing with is a great way to get a deeper understanding of the challenges, the expectations and lessons learned. Q:  Who is your go-to when you are stressed and need advise?  What makes this person or these people the ones you go to?   The thirteenth step is to seek professional help.  That ca be in the form of counseling, such as marriage counseling if the stressors of marriage are weighing on you.  It could be psychological or psychiatric counseling if the job is emotonally and psychologically taxing.  It could be spiritual counseling. Q: What are your thoughts on seeking counseling?   Last but not least, step fourteen, learn to laugh at yourself.  Learn to find the humor in your minor mistakes. Learn not to take everything so serious all the time.  Learn to not take things so personally that every thing upsets and everything offends you. Q: How do your find humor in your day to day?  How does that make you feel? How does that make others around you feel? M.P. Neary says “One of the best ways to reduce stress is to accept the things that you cannot control.” In a world where so much is out of our control, it is important to focus our efforts on those things that we can control and influence and accept those things that we cannot. Q:  Jules, do you have any advice for anyone who may listening who is dealing with a stressful workplace, a stressful home or just a stressful life in general? And now its time to level up. If the stressors from your job have you calling in sick once a week and there is absolutely nothing wrong with you, then this call to action is for you.  If the stressors from your family have you arguing with your spouse and yelling at the kids for not good reason, this call to action is also for you.  If your financial situation has you laying in bed awake, thinking about bill collectors and over due student loans, then this call to action is for you as well.  If there are any stressors that have begun to feel overwhelming, then I challenge you to download the Superbetter App or visit the Superbetter.com website, links are in the show notes.  This is the leading mental health app that focuses on building mental toughness, reducing stress and anxiety and helping us to develop stronger minds when it comes to managing stress through some creative and exciting game play.  It's a fun way to manage stress like a boss. Jules, thank you for taking time out of your very busy schedule to join us for today's show.  Sharing how you manage stress like a boss, has given us a lot that we can work on to deal with stress.  Managing stress is definitely something that we all need to get better at!  You continue to be key member of our power circle and a mentor and we truly appreciate your friendship and your guidance.  We hope to have you back on our podcast in the future.   Stress is unavoidable.  We'll encounter a million different stressors in our lives.  In the end, its not the absence of stress that we are seeking, but the ability to handle stress in way that allows us to remain resilient, while maintaining a healthy lifestyle and dealing with stress in a positive manner.  If you are finding yourself stressed out, on the verge of burnout and becoming overwhelmed, remember to find time to recharge and reset your internal batteries, maintain a positive mindset when dealing with challenges and opportunities, remember to self-care by focusing on your health and wellness, but most importantly, learn to find the humor in your everyday experience.  Learn to laugh and not take things so serious as you level up.   ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Jane McGonigal (@avantgame) is a futurist who specializes in designing games that challenge players to tackle real-world problems, and is the bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter. Her latest book is Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything ? Even Things That Seem Impossible Today. What We Discuss with Jane McGonigal: Why it is more important to be imaginative and insightful than to be 100 percent right when trying to predict what the future has in store for us. How do we embrace problem scenarios and their solutions ahead of actual emergencies with an attitude of motivation and hope rather than dread? The imaginative value of scheduling personal and professional plans on your calendar 10 years in advance. How you can train yourself to spot signals of change that give you an edge on foresight (without falling down conspiracy theory rabbit holes), and imagine the ways anything can be different in the future. The First 5 Minutes of the Future: a game Jane developed that helps you consider what to do when the next "unthinkable" change happens. And much more... Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/690 Sign up for Six-Minute Networking -- our free networking and relationship development mini course -- at jordanharbinger.com/course! Miss the show where we interviewed Google’s Eric Schmidt? Catch up by listening to episode 201: Eric Schmidt | How a Coach Can Bring out the Best in You here! Like this show? Please leave us a review here -- even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally!

It's Mental Health Awareness Month and Rusty (perhaps the most positive person on planet Earth) joins Ben on the podcast to discuss a word that he feels is important to develop in life… resilience.  Ben has conducted extensive research on the psychology of being resilient, the Google Ngram Viewer, and a mobile game designer who created an application to help her “slay her concussion.”  Meanwhile, Rusty shares his secrets to a positive attitude and his enjoyment of the Horizon franchise. 00:00:54 - Why did Rusty pick the word resilience? 00:03:40 - Be the captain of your own ship, maintain your morale, and try not to get distracted  00:07:03 - Ben tries to imagine “angry Rusty,” and then to explain Google's Ngram viewer   00:10:15 - Increased usage of the word resilience, and back to a glossary of n-gram terms 00:14:03 - Rusty responds to Ron Breazeale's “11 skills/attitudes that can increase resilience"  00:22:34 - Video game characters finding their own resiliences, and Horizon's Aloy  00:27:03 - Venting about the loss of a special character in Forbidden West 00:29:01 - Guerrilla Games is likely a Twizzlers family  00:33:10 - The water levels in Horizon: Forbidden West  00:36:51 - The “stealth kelp” plot hole, and forcing the player to hide in the water 00:39:02 - A bug is preventing Rusty from getting platinum, and blaming Aquaman  00:40:15 - Jane McGonigal's books, games, and her story of resilience  00:43:10 - The game SuperBetter and how it can be used to improve resilience  00:46:45 - Ben's “back in my day moment,” and a “shout out” for Ann 00:48:03 - Rusty and Ben's closing thoughts on resilience!

The COVID-19 pandemic — one of the most disruptive events in human history — has made it more challenging than ever to feel prepared, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives when it feels impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year or next decade? Humans aren't particularly fond of uncertainty, but what if we had the tools to help us feel more secure and shape our futures? Future forecaster and game designer Jane McGonigal believes it's possible to recover confidence and face uncertain futures with optimism. As a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games, she has an extensive background in designing tools to improve real lives and solve real problems through planetary-scale collaboration. In her new book, Imaginable, McGonigal drew on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. Through provocative thought experiments and future simulations, McGonigal offered strategies for envisioning our future lives, developing the courage to solve problems with creativity, and accessing the “urgent optimism” within each of us to take agency over our decisions. Jane McGonigal, Ph.D., is a future forecaster and designer of games created to improve real lives and solve real problems. She is the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter, and her TED talks on how gaming can make a better world have more than 15 million views. She was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum; one of Fast Company's “Top 100 Creative People in Business”; and one of the “Top 35 innovators changing the world through technology” by MIT Technology Review. She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, a nonprofit research group in Palo Alto, California. Margaret Morris, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist focused on how technology can support wellbeing. She is an affiliate faculty member in the Information School at the University of Washington and a research consultant. Morris is the author of Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health and Focus. Buy the Book: Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

The future grows out of the present, but it manages to consistently surprise us. How can we get better at anticipating and preparing for what the future can be like? Jane McGonigal started out as a game designer, working on the kinds of games that represent miniature worlds with their own rules. This paradigm provides a useful way of thinking about predicting the future: imagining changes in the current world, then gaming out the consequence, allowing real people to produce unexpected emergent outcomes. We talk about the lessons learned that anyone can use to better prepare their brain for the future to come.Support Mindscape on Patreon.Jane McGonigal received her Ph.D. in performance studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a writer and Director of Games Research and Development at the Institute for the Future. She teaches a course at Stanford on How to Think Like a Futurist. She has developed several games, including SuperBetter, a game she designed to improve health and resilience after suffering from a concussion. Her recent book is Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything–Even Things That Seem Impossible Today.Web siteInstitute for the Future pageUrgent OptimistsAmazon.com author pageWikipediaTwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What if we could imagine the future and even plan for it? What if there was a way to feel secure while still bracing for the next “unthinkable” event? What if we could still feel hope for the future while squarely facing its challenges? Jane McGonigal believes we can imagine the “unimaginable.” Why is she so confident? In 2008 and 2010, McGonigal and her team at the Institute of the Future ran simulations that predicted human behavior in the face of a hypothetical global respiratory pandemic in precise detail, from social distancing to masking to wildfires and even the spread of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and the unbridgeable political divide. Cut to 2020/2021, and not only were McGonigal's predictions proven correct, but her findings have also shown that the participants in the simulation found themselves less shell shocked when COVID-19 hit. And I thought we could all stand to learn from her. Jane is a future forecaster and a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems— andin her spare time, she's the New York Times bestselling author of Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter, and her TED talks have more than 15 million views. I talk to her today about IMAGINABLE: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today, which came out this week.I talk to her about getting better at imagining the unimaginable, why facial recognition technologies and climate change stand to have an impact on the years ahead, and the concept of urgent optimism. This is one of my favorites in recent memory, and I think it'll be one of yours as well—so let's jump right in!As always, we welcome your feedback. Please make sure to subscribe, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Play - and make sure to follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn!

Jane McGonigal — How She Predicted COVID in 2010, Becoming the Expert of Your Own Future, Trust Warfare, the 10-Year Winter, and How to Cultivate Optimism | Brought to you by Dry Farm Wines natural wines designed for fewer hangovers, Vuori comfortable and durable performance apparel, and Helix Sleep premium mattresses. More on all three below.Jane McGonigal (@avantgame) is a future-forecaster and a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games that improve real lives and solve real problems. She's the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future and the lead instructor for their series on the Coursera platform. She also teaches the course How to Think Like a Futurist at Stanford University.Jane is the New York Times bestselling author of Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter, and the forthcoming Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today. Her TED talks on how games can make a better world and the game that can give you 10 extra years of life have more than 15 million views. Her innovative games and ideas have been recognized by the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, O magazine, and The New York Times, among many others.Please enjoy!*This episode is brought to you by Dry Farm Wines. I'm a wine drinker, and I love a few glasses over meals with friends. That said, I hate hangovers. For the last few months, all of the wine in my house has been from Dry Farm Wines. Why? At least in my experience, their wine means more fun with fewer headaches. 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09: Part 1 of 2. How can we navigate relationships after such a bizarre year of scarcity/ "pod mentality" while having the whole world at our fingertips? I had the pleasure of chatting with Professor Sean Branagan (@sean_branagan on Twitter) and friend Ruby Saracino (@rubysaracino on Instagram) about relationships. We talked Dunbar's Number, Jane McGonigal's method from "Superbetter", the 5 step process to making connections, and this bizarre post-Covid, pre-feeling normal time in our lives. Feel free to follow along with journal prompts you can find on my Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/margot.lee/ Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margot.lee/ Find me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MargotLee Find me on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@margot.lee

Happy Sturgeon Moon, everybody! And happy Blue Moon, too! Jane McGonigal joins us on Chapter 85 of 3 Books to help us celebrate.   Let's start off with a question.   What would you do if you jumped out of a desk chair and slammed your head directly into an open cupboard door which gave you a massive concussion that left you bedridden for months? Oh, and you were told “No reading, no writing, no video games, no work, no email, no running, no alcohol, and no caffeine.”   Well, most of us would probably just lie there.   I mean, what else could you do?   Well, if you're Jane McGonigal that's not what you do. No! If you're Jane McGonigal, what you do is design a game, in your concussion-riddled state, to help you get better. You create an avatar. You give yourself goals. You select projects. And you slowly help yourself heal! You call the game Jane the Concussion Slayer, after your favorite TV show Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and then you release it out into the world.   Today that game has helped over a million people tackle challenges like concussions, depression, anxiety, and chronic pain. It's been renamed Super Better and been evaluated by clinical trials, randomized control studies, and all kinds of scientific white papers as the top game in the world treating depression, anxiety and pain.   Is it any wonder Jane was the first person to study computer and video games in her PhD at Berkeley? Or that she's a TED superstar with two talks racking up over 15 million views about how gaming can make a better world and the game that can give you 10 extra years of life? Or that she's the New York Times bestselling author of Reality is Broken and (yes) Superbetter? Or the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future? No, I did not make any of that up. And I could go on!   Jane McGonigal is a humanistic designer of alternate realities and her life goal is to see a game developer win the Nobel Peace Prize. I love her work and the incredible force for good it is having on the world.   Let's grab a seat with Jane and talk: how we live with greater flow, how we harness our children's ‘soul force', why we maybe shouldn't be limiting screen time, how to choose games for kids, what questions you should ask your kids about the games they play, the best card game out there, exploring the boundaries of our psychic selves, and, of course, Jane McGonigal's 3 most formative books.   Let's turn the page into Chapter 85 now …   What You'll Learn: How can we bend the rules of reality? What is the power of a twin relationship? What is a soul force? How should we think about nature and nurture as we parent? Are our identities more malleable today? What is the difference between social media and gaming? What is flow? Why do game designers learn about flow? How can flow be a resource for humanity? How do we find our own flow? How can we shift away from bullshit jobs? Why should we shorten the workday week? How can games help treat PTSD and depression? How can we better manage screen time for our kids? How should we curate games for our kids? How can games help our kids learn confidence? Why should kids teach their parents how to play video games? What are the  key questions you should be asking your kids about the video games they play? What is a predictor of video game addiction? How does TV benefit kids? Why should you watch TV with your kids? Why should you know the theme songs of your kids' favorite TV shows? How do we teach aliens what it means to be human? What does studying an audience tell us about art? How do we experience more out of life? You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://www.3books.co/chapters/85    Leave us a voicemail. 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Achievement Unlocked! Nesse episódio conversamos com o Doutor em Gamificação Armando Toda e falamos sobre os uso de elementos de jogos em redes sociais, escolas e até em esportes! Venha descobrir o que existe além de quadros de liderança, pontos e medalhas no mundo que vai além dos jogos, mas usa seus elementos para tornar nossas atividades mais motivadoras! Participantes: Armando Toda (@armandotoda), Gabriel Coutinho Natucci (@gc.tucci), Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Junior (Jesus - @frickajr) Referências: Gameful World - https://www.amazon.com/Gameful-World-Approaches-Issues-Applications/dp/026202800X Reality is Broken - https://www.amazon.com.br/realidade-jogo-games-tornam-melhor/dp/8576845229/ Superbetter - https://www.amazon.com/SuperBetter-Living-Gamefully-Jane-McGonigal/dp/0143109774 Gamificação - https://www.amazon.com/Gamification-experi%C3%AAncias-aprendizagem-engajadoras-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B01AKHNEYG Gamificação, Aprendizado e Instrução - https://www.amazon.com/Gamification-Learning-Instruction-Game-based-Strategies/dp/1118096347 Digital Game-based Learning - https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Game-Based-Learning-Marc-Prensky/dp/1557788634 Final fantasy XIV - https://store.steampowered.com/app/39210/FINAL_FANTASY_XIV_Online/ League of Legends - https://na.leagueoflegends.com/pt-br/ Pokemon Snap - https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/new-pokemon-snap-switch/ Zombies Run - https://zombiesrungame.com/ Habitica - https://habitica.com/static/home Duolingo - https://www.duolingo.com/ Song of Horror - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096570/SONG_OF_HORROR_COMPLETE_EDITION/ Super Magbot - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1205170/Super_Magbot/ Juho Hamari Leonard Nacke Seiji Isotani Isabella Gasparini Helaine Harada

Building an intimate relationship often needs all parties involved to show some level of intimacy. To open up and let others in is being vulnerable but in order to do that there needs to be things like trust and acceptance which happen to be key factors in building intimacy. So in this episode we visit how vulnerability and intimacy go hand in hand and how they impacted our weekend trip away to Bend, Oregon. For more information on intimacy here are a few places to start:8 Books on Sex and Intimacy, recommended by sex educator Dawn Serra. This list includes inclusive, empowering titles such as “Ecstasy Is Necessary” by Barbara Carrellas.5 Relationship Books That Will Profoundly Change the Way You Love, a list compiled by relationship coach Kyle Benson. This list includes books that aren’t only focused on sex and romance, like the self-development book “SuperBetter” by Jane McGonigal.Consider individual and relationship therapy. By working with a therapist one-on-one, a family therapist, or a couples counselor, you can get some personalized insight on intimacy. Here’s information on finding a therapist and some affordable therapy options for every budget.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Please help us help others by hitting that "follow" or "subscribe" button and leaving us a 5 star rating and review on whatever platform you listen on. It really helps new listeners find us. If you want some more of Bella and Monsuta head over to our Patreon page for bonus episodes and to join our Polyam Fam Facebook group! And of course you can reach out to us all over social media!For additional episodes and content, come join our Patreon!Follow our Facebook page called Polyamory: Get Your Heart On.Find the link to our episode and share your comments about the show.Our Instagram is @TalkYourPolyOff.For the kinkier polyamorists, cum join our TYPO Kinkster Fetlife GroupAlso, check out our Twitter, @TalkYourPolyOff.You can also hit up our website and bookmark it so you can watch us as we grow. ;)Finally,As mentioned a moment ago, we welcome listener input, feel free to send us an email with your thoughts at talkyourpolyoff@gmail.comorText us or leave us a voicemail!TYPO Phone (209) 536-TYPO (8976)

I’ve known Gary Ware for over 10 years now. He’s a true expert when it comes to play – it’s not just associated with kids. In this conversation, I pick his brains to find out how play can help boost productivity. Day-to-day, Gary helps professionals level-up their confidence, creativity, and happiness using play. He is the Founder of Breakthrough Play, a corporate facilitator and keynote speaker with a decade of experience as a performer in improv theatre. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp offers you access to your own licensed professional therapist – all from the comfort of wherever you are. You can arrange weekly video chats or phone calls, text with your carefully curated counsellor, and do so at an affordable price. And anything you share is confidential. I’ve been using BetterHelp for a while and I am highly impressed. It’s been a huge help for me and I know it can be the same for you. Start living a happier life today with BetterHelp. As a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting https://betterhelp.com/timecrafting (betterhelp.com/timecrafting). Give BetterHelp a try today. This episode is sponsored by TextExpander. With TextExpander, you can unlock your productivity with its many features. With TextExpander you can make everything you write repetitively available everywhere you type: text documents, spreadsheets, web forms, and more. Unlock your productivity with TextExpander. Visit https://textexpander.com/lp/podcast?utm_source=productivityist-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=textexpander-Apr-2021 (TextExpander.com/podcast) for 20% off your first year. In this interview, we explore how so many of us have been conditioned to play after we work, purposeful play activities, cliffhangers, and the hustle culture. Talking Points The productive power of play (1:54) The different forms of play (5:46) Some distracting play ‘traps’ (13:04) The infinite versus the finite mindset (24:11) Practical applications of play you can do today (29:52) Quote "Play is an advantage." Helpful Links https://productivityist.com/podcast-adhd-kirsten-milliken/ (Episode 90: Productivity & Play with Dr. Kirsten Milliken) https://www.amazon.com/Playdhd-Permission-Prescription-Adults-ADHD/dp/0997004509/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1456003135&sr=8-1&keywords=PlayDHD (‘Playdhd’ by Dr. Kirsten Milliken) ‘https://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse/dp/1476731713/ (Finite and Infinite Games’ by James Carse) https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Game-Simon-Sinek/dp/0241385636/r (‘The Infinite Game’ by Simon Sinek) https://www.amazon.com/Unmistakable-Only-Better-Than-Best-ebook/dp/B016JPTK9G/ (‘Unmistakable’ by Sriniva Rao) https://www.amazon.com/SuperBetter-Living-Gamefully-Jane-McGonigal/dp/0143109774/ (‘SuperBetter’ by Jane McGonigal) https://productivityist.com/thebigready/ (The BIG Ready) https://worlddominationsummit.com/ (World Domination Summit) https://www.breakthroughplay.com/ (BreakthroughPlay.com) Want to discover some of the books mentioned on the podcast? https://www.scribd.com/g/9a8d8 (Check out Scribd, my reading app of choice.) Podcast Theme Song: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/eFDGyraN87 (Nothing at All by Fictions (courtesy of Epidemic Sound)) If you enjoyed the episode, please leave a rating and/or review wherever you listened to the episode. And if you want to have easy access to the archives of the show and ensure you don't miss the new episodes to come then subscribe to the podcast in the app you're using – or you can do so on a variety of podcast platforms by clicking https://productivityist.captivate.fm/listen (here).

Keith Wakeman is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SuperBetter. Keith's professional background is in brand management. He worked for almost 20 years in the food industry where he led brand portfolios, innovation teams, new venture development, and corporate strategy for big food companies. SuperBetter is an application that is designed to empower individuals and communities to live epic lives that are full of joy, resilience, strong social relationships, positive emotions, and a sense of purpose. SuperBetter is based on the work of Jane McGonigal, the Chief Science Officer of SuperBetter, and author of the New York Times best-seller of the same name. In this episode, Keith Wakeman talks about the story behind the success of SuperBetter. He discusses their mission to unlock heroic potential in every one of us around the world through the application. Their epic win is to positively impact the co-occurring epidemics of mental illness, addiction, and suicide. And equally important, building connections with mission-aligned organizations to improve resilience, recovery, and mental health in the industries and communities they serve. What You'll Learn What the SuperBetter method is all about. The positive impact of playing SuperBetter on one's mental health, well-being, and success in life.   The resources available to help you gain a better understanding of the application and how you can get started. And much more! Favorite Quote  “You are the hero of your own story. This is all about you and helping you be stronger. You are the hero of your own story and you are stronger than you know.” – Keith Wakeman For More Information:  http://superbetter.com/ (SuperBetter.com) https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_the_game_that_can_give_you_10_extra_years_of_life?language=en (Jane McGonigal's TED Talk) Jane shares her personal story that led to SuperBetter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-hhksSW7ts&feature=emb_logo (SuperBetter Book Club)  Jane McGonigal shares advice with parents about connecting with their kids over videogames during the pandemic in this new discussion with Donna Volpitta.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7588098/ (Journal of Pediatric Psychiatry)  Practical and empirically guided framework for selecting appropriate mHealth apps for pediatric populations.  Book mentioned in the Podcast: https://www.amazon.com/SuperBetter-Living-Gamefully-Jane-McGonigal/dp/0143109774 (SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully) Stay Involved With The Optimistic Advocate Do you want to hear stories of inspiring advocates who help individuals and families make positive changes in their lives in communities across the globe? And maybe bring you a bit closer to recognizing your full potential as an advocate for change. Then listen and subscribe to https://theoptimisticadvocate.com/listen/ (The Optimistic Advocate) podcast. Enjoy each episode! Follow Scott Bryant-Comstock on https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottcmhn/ (LinkedIn). Join our https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3985215/ (LinkedIn community). Let us know what you think! Send an audio file with your comments to info@theoptimisticadvocate.com. We'd love to hear from you and remember to share it with your podcasting friends.

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Self Care Ideas That Most Corporate Professionals Haven't Considered You can't go very far when you're running on empty, no matter how hard you push. And that's why we've come up with this fun episode for you — consider it a virtual "filling station." All you need to do for now is hit the brake, find clarity, and refill your tank with self care ideas that use your natural talents. Just like operating from your unique strengths, practicing self care makes a world of difference. Self care is not self-ish, because it results in giving your world the best of you [very punny, right?]. No matter your role in your team, your strengths can guide you in choosing the tasks that replenish you so that you can contribute your best - and achieve goals with less effort. Our host Lisa Cummings is joined once again by TyAnn Osborn, and together they will guide you towards the things that could re-energize you. As you'll find out, filling up on self care ideas doesn’t have to be limited to studying mindfulness, meditation, and massage. Surprisingly, self care can feel really practical in the workplace, despite the typical connotation, which seems to live outside of the office. There are many self care ideas that come right out of your natural talents - ways you can approach your work to re-energize you while you simultaneously get things done. Here’s their conversation: Lisa: You're listening to Lead Through Strengths, where you'll learn to apply your greatest strengths at work. I'm your host, Lisa Cummings, and you know, I'm always telling you, it's hard to find something more energizing than using your natural talents every day at work.  Well, something that's just about as energizing is when I get to hang out with my other host here in the room, TyAnn Osborn.  TyAnn: Hi! Lisa: Today, we're talking about... We don't know yet what we're talking about, because we're doing a spin-the-wheel, where it tells us what we're talking about for the day. So let's spin.  TyAnn: Okay.  Lisa: Ooh, this one is talking about self care ideas...  TyAnn: Self care.  Lisa: When you run empty. TyAnn: Well...  Lisa: No, you should just start this Ty, because you've talked about when the cup is empty, you have nothing to give. We definitely need some self care ideas up in here. How These Self Care Ideas Can Help You Avoid Burnout TyAnn: That's it. So I think this is a really important topic right now. And, you know, we're all facing different struggles, no matter what it is. Depending on when you listen, there can be any number of things happening. Maybe you've got a personal health struggle, maybe you're facing job troubles, potential job loss. Maybe you've got some family stuff going on, kids stuff going on. I don't know, maybe there was a global pandemic. There's all kinds of things happening in the world right now, and something is probably happening in your life.  And here's the deal. You know, we have a lot of demands and pulls on our time and our energy. And often, we're trying to give so much to other people. If you're a manager, a people manager, you know, you're really trying to show up and be the best for your team. If you've got kids you're trying to give. If you're a volunteer, you're trying to give. But the truth is, you can't give from an empty cup. And so this is really where we've got to build self care ideas in our own life so that we can have our own replenishment - things that help us so that we can help give to other people. Because, believe me, if you're just gonna keep pouring, nothing's gonna come out.  Lisa: That's a good point. It's kind of like, if you use your cup metaphor, I'm going to drink, there's nothing there. I'm trying to take a sip, there's nothing there.  TyAnn: Yeah, you're still slurping on that straw, like (slurps)... Nothing happening.  Lisa: And I, I see this with a lot of clients where we want to be it all. We want to give it all. We want to do it all.  TyAnn: Yeah.  Lisa: I have very high expectations of myself that I never meet. I see customers who have high expectations of themselves that they never meet, and they feel crushing expectations from other people around them, so that same family member, teammate, boss, all of those situations, and they are like, "Everyone wants a piece of me, and I've got nothing." TyAnn: Yeah, "I've got nothing to give." And believe me, that is the number one recipe for burnout right there. Because, you know, we're people and a lot of us are strong in terms of achievement, and being able to really, you know, move forward. That's why we're successful in our careers. And we've kind of gotten to these points. But believe me, there's only so far you can push this before you will just hit a wall.  And often, you and I've talked about this before, oftentimes your body will tell you you've hit a wall before your brain will intellectually let you believe it. And, you know, I heard this one time on Oprah, she said, the universe speaks to you. And first, it'll be a whisper. And if you don't listen, then it'll start tapping a little louder. And finally, you know, if you keep not listening, it'll smack you upside the head. So I think it's really important to generate  self care ideas, and create a practice.  And we can talk about, "What does that look like from a strengths perspective?" Lisa: Yeah. When I think about self care ideas, I think about fitness. I think about fuel in the body, like what you're eating and drinking. I think about, "Am I consciously trying to direct my work to allow energizing things?" TyAnn: Yeah. Lisa: I also think about hobbies. Am I doing things in life that fill my cup back up?  TyAnn: Yeah. Different Energizers For Different Folks — Scrap The Judgment Lisa: There are a lot of things I think people can list if you ask, "What things energize you?" TyAnn: Yes.  Lisa: But then how many do you allow yourself to do, and how do you know the payoff, like, “Okay, if I allow myself to sleep 9 hours a night, which my body thinks it wants…”  TyAnn: Yeah. Lisa: We can have self care ideas, but we might not give ourselves permission to try them. It feels self-indulgent. TyAnn: So true. Lisa: ...I think, "I don't have time for that. I have too much to do." But I think I also would like to drive to a gym and go do yoga in the morning and then, start work around noon, and...  TyAnn: Play with your dogs and the drums and take a nap.  Lisa: Yeah, I have songs to write. I have drums to play. I have dogs to take care of. I have a husband to hang out with. I have a lot to do. And that takes up a whole workday all by itself. These are beautiful self care ideas, yet I need to bring home the bacon too. TyAnn: Right?! Did you time for work? Lisa: Who's got time for that?  TyAnn: Yeah. So how do you fit these self care ideas into your day? And how does this feel like not just one more thing I have to do? And then where can I get the biggest bang for my buck?  Lisa: Yeah. Good point. You can have self care ideas, but they can also feel burdensome because they take up time. So what's the first step? I mean, and we're doing this related to strengths.  TyAnn: So what are all the answers to this mystery?  So a few things. I will just offer a personal bias. I think this word "self care" is used a lot now. It's thrown around. And sometimes when I hear it, it feels a little soft. Or it's all about like taking long hot bubble baths or something. And I think that feels a little squishy to me. So how about we just say, things that replenish you? Whatever that is for you.  Lisa: The magic wand, we are now turning "self care ideas" into "things that replenish you." Very simple. That definitely makes it less squishy. TyAnn: Yeah. And I also think we can take away judgment on that, because something that makes you feel good might not make me feel good. So it's very personal to you.  Lisa: Well, I think that we have one of those because I think that you're making fun of bubble baths, but that you actually do like them. And you like to read in the bath.  TyAnn: I do.  Lisa: Meanwhile, when we built our house, we built a bathless house because we don't take baths.  TyAnn: Hey, interesting trend in real estate, right? Lisa: Is it?. I didn't realize that. TyAnn: As someone who just went through that process, now you go in, it's kind of polarizing. Bath person. No bath person. Some people have the big freestanding bathtub, it's a whole spa. Other people are like, "No, that's big waste." So it is a good metaphor for this topic.  Lisa: It totally is. TyAnn: Because one person's replenishment is another person’s waste of space. So that's something that I do for myself and actually recommend for my clients as well. It’s just...take out a white sheet of paper. I'm a big believer in like analog tools, or get a whiteboard, and then just list out stuff you like.  And here's what's interesting. Sometimes that can be paralyzing to clients, like, “Oh, my God, where do I even start?” So just take away all of the judgment. It can be little things like, "I like chocolate ice cream." That can't be my entire self care regimen, by the way, or I'd gain 50 pounds. But, you know, just start listing without judging the list. Creation and editing are two very different processes. Separate them so we can start listing out things. Start with the creation of a list. Write all of the things that replenish you. If that feels too limiting, just write things that you like - activities you enjoy. Lisa: Don't judge it while it's landing on the page. TyAnn: No judgment. As Planet Fitness says "this is a no judgement zone," (even though they misspelled judgment). So... Lisa: They did? TyAnn: Some judgment...  Lisa: You’re judging the judgment spelling, that is.  TyAnn: I know, judgment, right? Slightly judgy. So I would just say, try that, or I get clients stuck on... "I can only list work things that I'm excited about..." Lisa: Ha ha. I hear your Maximizer talent coming out. Maybe we can do categories for their self care ideas. Tyann: Yeah.  Lisa: Let's come up with some categories. You could list work things that you like,  TyAnn: Could be...  Lisa: Work people that you like. TyAnn: (laughs) That's a big one.  Lisa: Because people are like, “You replenish me. When I'm around you, my energy goes up.”  TyAnn: But there are some people who don't replenish us. So they wouldn't go on the list.  Lisa: Right? Ha ha. Okay. So we've got work...tasks or responsibilities. We've got people.  TyAnn: Maybe workplaces.  Lisa: Ooh, like physical places? TyAnn: Yes. Or maybe if you get to travel somewhere that's fun. Or maybe traveling for you to some location you dread that maybe you have to go once a quarter. And that's really a de-energizer for you. So don't put that on your list.  Lisa: And you might know, "Hey, I'll make another list of things I need to get my energy up because I know it's going to be drained more...when these things happen." TyAnn: So this is the “things that bring me energy” list. So work stuff... and get as granular as you can in terms of work tasks. So I don't recommend putting things on there like, the XYZ project, because that's way too big. So get very granular about what specifically about that project did you like? Did you like interacting with the project team members, because it was just that awesome team where you really felt like you clicked with everyone? Or was it because you got to be out front? That would be me. You know it to be out on stage or I get to be the one making the presentation. Or maybe you're that spreadsheet jockey and you came up with just a brilliant thing that you pushed a button and all these magic happened, and it was the coolest thing ever. That would not be me. But for someone that could be.  Lisa: You can also see trends after the list is complete...if you make yourself stick with the list-making when it gets tough for a minute. Then you can see bigger trends. Like one that I know for me I've figured out is, I like making things, but I like making a class. I like making an audio file. I like making a song up. I like making all sorts of different types of making. Some are very tech-focused. Some are super creative, but I couldn't see that trend until I listed a bunch of the details.  That's when you get self care ideas that you never expected. They don't come out on the first pass. TyAnn: That’s great! I love that. So then you can go back and say what is it about these things that are similar? It's a creative process.  Embracing What’s 'Weird' And Improving On What’s 'Standard' Are Self Care Steps Too TyAnn: Yeah. And this is for people who are like, "Oh, I can't list that, because that...that doesn't count. Or, I don't want anyone to know that I secretly like to….[insert whatever crazy hobby it is]. I was working with a group of chemical engineers. And this one gentleman, he stood up, and he said, “I like Dutch oven cooking.” And I thought, what a brave thing to say in front of a room of other chemical engineers. And I'm like, “You go! Dutch oven cooking! What a specific niche thing to do.” It's a brilliant self care idea, but he never would have called it that. Lisa: Yeah. It makes me think of "things you do to decompress" as another category for the list of self care ideas. Tyann: I didn't even know that was a hobby. And I like to cook too. And whatever it is, it doesn't matter. It's all about what rejuvenates you. Lisa: Back to your analog self care idea list: I facilitate an activity like this. I'll put the timer on two minutes, and I'll say, “Don't let the pen stop... keep going as a stream of consciousness thing." What did I like doing when I was 9? What am I doing when I lose track of time? What activities are fun? Who is fun to be around? What am I good at? What comes easily to me? What makes me feel alive? What am I saying when I crack myself up? What topics to I love to learn about? What makes me different from the average person? If you just can't think of an answer, keep the pen going and move to another angle." What you brought up for me is my follow-on, that I'll often have people do, which is: Keep this out for a week, because you need to grab the little moments that you didn't even know, “Oh, I got a little spark out of that idea and it reminded me of a whole new set of self care ideas.”  And one of them that I think is really cool is: What makes you weird? And if I just ask you that, like, how many things could you list? Well, I might be able to add more than a normal person. But the little things like, what has anyone ever commented on? Because they'll come up. They'll pop in your head later.  TyAnn: Right.  Lisa: Okay, a weird thing about me is I eat canned things, because I like to eat vegetables and I like to be efficient. And I don't like spending a lot of time on my food. But I do want quality food in me. So somewhere in the middle, I found a jar of beets that I eat for my snack or my lunch. That's weird. I just stick my fork in the jar of beets and I eat it. Isn't that bizarre?  TyAnn: Lisa eats green beans out of the can as well.  Lisa: I will. Green beans are doable... but.. some of them are too squishy, like canned asparagus and spinach. Those are a no-go… Green beans, corn, beets — all workable for moments of vegetable efficiency. But that is very weird. But if you start looking at it like, what energizes me? The energizing part isn't the beets. It's finding new efficiencies. Finding ways to break a rule, like that rule makes me think about how I don't have to cook because other people do. I remember a moment when I got feedback at my house that I was not running the dishwasher as often as it should be because we were running out of forks. And so my answer was *not* to wash dishes more frequently or run the dishwasher more frequently. It was to buy more forks. And I got a real kick out of that. It was my special way of being efficient and effective. So these weird things about you can generate surprising self care ideas. TyAnn: I love that.  Lisa: When you see “Oh, I love coming up with something that is a solution to a problem that is not normal, that no one else would think of.” And I'll get a jazz out of that that will give me an hour-long high.  TyAnn: Yeah.  Lisa: So being able to write down those things, like the moments where you got a boost or you got a kick out of yourself.  TyAnn: This is so great. So you've said a couple of things that I think are brilliant.  Life is made up of all these little moments that are punctuated by the big thing. But 99% of life is...just we go through life, right? So that's where we can look. And so much of what you said is like a Maximizer coming out, which by the way, I'm that as well. But two examples for you in the food realm. So we started getting those home boxes that come with the food and the recipe. The box comes in, you have the recipe and you put it all together. Usually it's my job to put the ingredients together. Occasionally, my husband will put it together but he takes the recipe and goes exactly step by step and it comes out and, you know, it's fine. I'm different. I take the recipe and use it as a launchpad. It's like a starting point because I'm often thinking, "Hmm, you know, what would make this better?Just a little bit of shallot, a little bit of garlic, you know, a dash of cinnamon..."  And then I’ll present it to him, he's like, “This is not the recipe.” I'm like, “I know. It's better. It's better.” That's like a hallmark of Maximizers: "I’m gonna make this better!" Lisa: And it makes you really excited. TyAnn: Oh, huge, huge jazz out of it. 'Cause I sort of have this image of myself back at the test kitchen of whatever company being all like, “I made it better,” even though that's not my job and I would never do that. Anyway, in my head, it's pretty exciting. So, and a long time ago, back when the interwebs were still very new, I had this website, and one of the things I did was reviews of restaurants and products. This is really crazy to think about now. But do you remember flight — I know, we'll get back there one day — and in the in-flight magazine, how there were always those lists of like, top 10 steak houses in the United States.... Well, I took that as a challenge. And so I decided to go visit all of them, and then do reviews on them and see if I really thought they were the top 10 steak houses.  So then I had a whole thing on. Lisa: And you had this whole energy...  TyAnn: I do!  Lisa: ...about it.  TyAnn: And I'm 100% sure no one ever read that. But it didn't matter. I wasn't doing it for the audience, I was doing it as, like, a quality kind of thing.  Lisa: Hmmm. What's your take...you're making me think of...on the topic of self care ideas...how fulfilled we feel as humans and how alive we feel as humans, because I think there's a difference between being alive and feeling alive, like feeling alive for what you're doing. And that so much of it can come from striving and having a goal and that there's something around it even if it's something like, “I have this thing, I'm going to visit these 10…places." TyAnn: Whatever… Lisa: Whatever that thing is, so even making one of those lists...instead of it being an inventory of things you've found yourself get a charge out of it, could be like, “Oh, that sounds fun. I'm actually going to go do that.” TyAnn: You know, there was research that was done about, and this was really done on couples and families. And something that was particularly bonding was something they came up with and called it a quest. But it works for individuals too, that whenever you have a quest, something that you're doing together, and it doesn't have to be like, “We're gonna go visit every continent,” even though that could be fun, but that might be a little unattainable for a lot of people, it could just be, “We're gonna go check out all of the state parks in a 30-mile radius from our house.”  Lisa: Yes! TyAnn: Or we're gonna find a public fishing hole near where we live. I mean, it doesn't, it literally doesn't matter what it is. It's just something that's a common goal for you.  Bringing Strengths Into Self Care By Focusing On Things That Energize You Lisa: I like that as a very actionable thing that you could do with this, where you're like, "How can I do self care? Can I bring my strengths into it?" And by the way, you can look at them and say, "What would light these up?" And that can be part of your list making. But also, if you do things that feel easy to you and energizing to you, they probably are in alignment with your strengths naturally. TyAnn: That's a clue to strengths, too.  Lisa: Yeah! TyAnn: Usually your strengths are things that bring you energy and you feel naturally attracted to. So it doesn't matter if it's, "You know what, I'm going to try a seasonal fruit or vegetable this month. This is going to be the month of asparagus, and I'm going to go try that.” Whatever. Or, "We're going to try a new place." You know, you often hear this, "We're going to try something new." Because if you put yourself out there a little bit, but it's a new adventure of some sort, it kind of satisfies a lot of this neat thing. And that's what really gets a lot of cool juices flowing for you. Doing the same thing over and over tends not to stroke that same area for you.  Lisa: Yeah. And I like how you do the... If you're going to come up with a quest as one of the action items like, what could your quest be? And could you have a quest that would be a workplace quest or a family quest? And then could you do one that would feel really enlivening to one of your strengths? And then even if you wanted to have a work or family conversation around it, how could this quest be really fun for this family?  TyAnn: Yeah.  Lisa: Or how could this quest, this big aspirational goal that the team is heading toward, which… How could you find a way that one of your strengths comes alive through it? It would be a really cool conversation.  TyAnn: Absolutely. Lisa: I don't know if this is the same video you were talking about with research? Jane McGonigal was a researcher and she was recovering from a concussion. She started a quest to get better. There's a TED talk where she describes what she did to power up. She called it Super Better. And it was how she gamified getting better. She was also a gamer and she figured out a way to get super better, but bits at a time. And this quest notion, whether or not she used those words. TyAnn: I love that.  Lisa: ...it was baked into it. And it gives you a way to get there. Instead of feeling like, I think when people are bad at self care, when we're doing ourselves wrong, it's because I'm like, “Well, I'm, I haven't worked out this week, so I'm going to eat tater tots for breakfast.”  TyAnn: We like tater tots in our house as well. Gotta say. Tater tots loving family. And then someone might say, well, and if I had tater tots for breakfast, I might as well just go all in and have cake for lunch. And... Lisa: Oh, and I put ice cream on my list of self care ideas. So we have that and then you're all downhill.  TyAnn: But it's an interesting kind of this concept too. So you know, a lot of people have workout on their list because they think that's what should be on the list. So I would say stop shooting on yourself. What brings you energy is what brings you energy. No one's creating this, by the way.  And so if you feel like a natural attraction to you would like to get more activity in your life, that doesn't have to mean I have to go to the gym for an hour and a half, and get on some torturous piece of equipment that I don't want to be on, that makes me feel icky... Or, I have to go to a Body Pump class where I'm embarrassed and don't know how to do it. That's not what that means.  Lisa: Yeah, I think that thing, like remembering, there's a notion, maybe it's one that other people have put out there for you. Or maybe it's something you've made up about what that word means. Workout is a good example of one that's loaded. TyAnn: Yeah, a lot of baggage, Lisa: I think quick shout out to the book, Eat, Move, Sleep. That’s a really good one for self care ideas. TyAnn: Absolutely.  Lisa: …asking yourself, how are you on your eating and moving and sleeping? But okay, like if you said, “Okay, I want to move.”  TyAnn: Right.  Lisa: What kind of moving is fun for me? Maybe for one person, it's taking a walk with a friend,  and you got to have the social connection while you were power walking. For the next person, it’s going to a group exercise class.  Like I had... I went and hooked up my Xbox again, for the Kinect, to dance to Fergie. I mean, it's silly, but that's a fun workout for me. So why don’t I do it? TyAnn: That counts. That counts.  Lisa: And then you go, “Oh, well. Well, I do. Why don't I hook that back up? TyAnn: Right!  Lisa: Why do I have that unplugged? TyAnn: So if you want to be Dance Dance Revolution, man, knock yourself out!  Lisa: I love Dance Dance Revolution.  TyAnn: Or if you just want to crank up the music, or take a walk, or if you want to try some, you know, whatever new class is out there... Lisa: Take a whole new class! Whatever sounds fun for you. TyAnn: ...there’s something. So I think it really is trying to get away again from, if you write something down because you feel you should, I would say take another look at that, because that's not bringing you energy. And this is supposed to be a self care list about things that are exciting to you and bring you energy.  So if you feel like you should call your mom every day and spend an hour on the phone with her, but that doesn't bring you energy, don't put that on your list. Don’t put that on your list. Or even working out. If that doesn't sound so great to you, think about, “What does sound great to me? Hanging out with my friend sounds great. So maybe, I get an accountability partner at the gym. Then, that can be where I go to see my friends, I've kind of paired something I'm a little more iffy at with something I'm excited about. So together, I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone in a way that still feels awesome."  Lisa: Yeah.  TyAnn: So I think that's part of that self care. So I would just say, get back to that creative space. Think about those things which bring you energy. Try to get down to those micro-segments. I like organizing, that brings me energy. And so if I'm feeling a little out of sorts,  Lisa: Labeler.  TyAnn: If I'm feeling a little out of sorts, I might just literally pull open my desk drawer and just get it sorted out.  Lisa: Oh, this is the perfect closing to this.  Self Care Need Not Be Hard Or Inconvenient — Grow On Micro Habits Lisa: On the best self care ideas: My favorite TyAnn concept of the universe is “stop making things so hard.”  I make life hard because I think of all of these things I should be doing or want to do or that would feel great. But then they feel too gratuitous. It just feels like too much time. I don't have that much time for these eight hours of things I would prefer to do during the day.  TyAnn: It's too much.  Lisa: So the opening one drawer, and organizing one little space...  TyAnn: Right.  Lisa: The reading one page of a book, not even one chapter, but I like reading, I read one page.  TyAnn: Yoohoo, ‘crushing it! I’m winning. Lisa: If you’ve read Atomic Habits, have you checked out that?  TyAnn: Yes. Yeah.  Lisa: It's like, I will put my workout shoes next to my bed, and I will put my workout shoes on and then maybe...I will do 10 push-ups, and that's your only expectation for yourself — 10 push-ups, just something that is...  TyAnn: ...that you can crush, you can win... Lisa: ...very small and doable.  TyAnn: Micro-habits.  Lisa: ...and let it grow.  TyAnn: And you're like, I want to eat more vegetables. Great, I ate one asparagus. Winning! (laughs) Right? As opposed to, “Well, now I have to become a vegan.”  ...which seems like a big thing.  Lisa: That is so funny as a closing thought too because I have some like vegan experimenting things that… TyAnn: Vegan-curious? Lisa: Yeah! Say I’m plant-curious. If you're listening, hey, Becky Hammond from Isogo Strong!  TyAnn: We love Becky!  Lisa: Becky's a vegetarian. I was talking about well, you know, if I were to do it, I would just go vegan because I don't eat dairy so I would just like, that's the big battle with going vegan to me anyway, is I can't eat dairy anyhow. So I got past the vegetarian vegan thing. But I don't know about that. And I started giving all of these reasons: "This gets in my way...this makes it a precarious approach...and this makes it inconvenient. And she's like, “Just have one more plant-based meal per day." I said, “Oh, hello!” I hadn't thought of that. TyAnn: Something doable. Lisa: Stop making everything all or none. Stop making everything have a mutually exclusive this or that.  TyAnn: Stop making it so hard. Stop making it so hard. Lisa: And with that, I think it is…the perfect ending. So you've been listening to Lead Through Strength. As you think about not making it so hard and bringing your strengths into your self care practice, walk away with your list. Log those moments over the next month, maybe just a week or a few days. But catch the moments that were fun to you. Come let us know on social what they were for you because it is fun to hear the energizing moments for other people.  TyAnn: Absolutely. We'll talk about all of the self care ideas. Lisa: We will. Because the variety is so much fun when you learn one person's trash is another person's treasure - in hobbies and in tasks at work. So with that, let us know which ones you're starting to implement. We would love to hear how you took five more minutes for your self care so that you can fill your cup because we don't want you out of water. With that, we'll see you next time. Bye for now. Resources: Self Care Ideas To Help You Fuel Up Your Strengths And Fire Up Your Life Vital to self care is staying at your top form and performing better at work by knowing what keeps your strengths honored and insulted. Visit Lisa’s insightful episode about finding energizing tasks at work to discover what situations (or cultures) can either drain or motivate you based on your strengths. But simply knowing what honors and insults your strengths or talents cannot complete a self care process. Lisa’s Strengths Blind Spots episode serves as a great reminder to “feed our talents the same way we feed our body." Spend time developing and nurturing them instead of squashing them down so they can best serve your performance and, ultimately, that of the team. Finally, check out this episode on Wellbeing: Bravely Build a Fit Body and Mind Through Strengths with Lisa and Matt Swenson. You’ll learn to create healthy strengths habits around the 5 essential elements of wellbeing: career, social, financial, physical, and community. Life-changing self care ideas!

Col. Chris Hadfield is an amazing guy, and in his book, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, he describes getting ready. He's always getting ready. He started getting ready to be an astronaut at 9 years old after seeing the moon landing. What I found so interesting is Canada didn't even have a space program. Col. Hadfield lived the life an astronaut would have lived and put himself in the best possible position for success. If he didn't make it, he still lived a great life. Enjoying the journey is key (actually his wife enabled his journey all the way). Col. Hadfield is a guy who prepares, who gets ready. That's who he really is. Who are you? I'm a big believer in identity. Who we think we are determines how we live, and how authentic we feel, and dare I say how happy we can be? Some labels are static, like "I'm the boss." or "I'm a top performer." or "I'm a vegan." Some labels are unspoken, like "I always win." or simply "I'm not that type of guy." When these static labels break, we suddenly find out we aren't who we've always thought we were. This cognitive dissidence, this break in who we are causes a lot of stress and confusion. We can become bitter or desperate. On the mild end, we are distraught when we receive criticism or find ourselves in a slump - unable to fight our way out. Jane McGonigal, in her book Superbetter, introduced me to the idea of fixed versus growth mindsets. A fixed mindset is like my kid thinking they are smart and always know the answer. When she got to a question that was tough, she'd fall apart and struggle because that's not who she is. Now we use a growth mindset and talk about how hard she works and how she's the one that asks for help early and keeps going until she finds the answer. You'd be shocked in the difference this had made in her life. Again, I wonder, who am I? I am a learner. I am someone who is always looking for a solution. I have a deep willingness to prepare. Faith in who I am has come from years of experience. The labels can't break. The labels get stronger as I continue to seek and find. What about you? Are you trying to live up to a fixed label that can break? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/greg-dyche/support

Can setbacks be the first step towards tapping into our inner hero to become #SuperBetter?…

Emma and Gil invite award-winning game designer, teacher, and not-scholar Sharang Biswas to the show to discuss verbs in games. What actions do we actually perform when we play a game, what actions do they represent, and how does that impact the game experience? You can find Sharang on Twitter or on the web. Here is his itch.io store. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains references to sex and sexuality. Show Notes 2h31m: Sharang teaches at The International Center of Photography (Bard College), and at Fordham University. 3m05s: We had Dr. Mary Flanagan on the show for Ludology 226 - Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo 3m26s: Playcrafting is an organization that holds game design events, mainly for digital games, in New York City, San Francisco, and Boston. 5m04s: Anna Anthropy is an influential game designer, and current designer-in-residence at DePaul College in Chicago. 5m15s: Ian Bogost's Persuasive Games. 10m08s: Android: Netrunner 11m33s: We discussed ludonarrative dissonance, especially in board games, in Ludology 190 - Diabolus in Ludica. 12m05s: The uselessness of 1:1 scale maps came up in our conversation with Volko Ruhnke for Ludology 178 - COIN-Operated. 12m29s: If you haven't heard us discuss at length what a "game" is, check out Ludology 151 - High Definition. 12m35s: More information about the word autotelic, which is extremely useful when discussing games and play. 13m35s: Frank Lanz is a game designer and director of the NYU Game Center. 16m35s: Great Western Trail, Food Chain Magnate 17m10s: Ryan and Geoff discussed the magic circle with game designer and professor Eric Zimmerman in Ludology 79 - The Magic Circle. 17m29s: You can find more about Honey & Hot Wax, edited by Sharang and Lucian Kahn, here. 18m25s: The phrase "turtles all the way down" is one of Gil's favorites. 20m54s: Hungry Hungry Hippos, Mouse Trap, Pretty Pretty Princess, Electronic Dream Phone 21m30s: MegaCity Oceania 21m54s: Mountains of Madness 23m10s: Pandemic Legacy: Season One 24m11s: Sharang's game with Max Seidman, Mad Science Foundation 26m35s: The RPG Sign. 28m10s: More information about the larp Sarabande. 29m42s: Geoff and Gil discussed "soft incentives" in Ludology 185 - Soft Boiled. 30m38s: Jiangshi, an RPG about Chinese immigrants juggling running a haunted restaurant, by Banana Chan and Sen-Foong Lim. We had Banana on the show a few weeks ago, for Ludology 228 - The Roles We Play. 31m10s: Some of the discussion about "Press F To Pay Respects" in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. 31m31s: Untitled Goose Game 35m53s: Sharang compares Chaos in the Old World to Assault of the Giants. Chaos was designed by the incomparable Eric Lang, who we had on the show for Ludology 175 - Auld Lang Design. 37m13s: Sagrada 38m19s: DC Comics Deck-Building Game 40m00s: John Cage's 4'33", which instructs the performer to play no notes for the duration of the piece. 40m27s: Positive examples of ludonarrative dissonance: Typing of the Dead, Unspeakable Words 40m58s: Brenda Romero's well-known art game Train. 41m16s: Sharang's game Feast, inspired by Felix Gonzalez-Torres' original art piece Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.). 41m45s: The RPG With Great Power…  42m31s: Team Fun's interview with Sharang, featuring the phrase "Jump, Decapitate, Kill." 43m44s: Journalist, larp designer, and game writer Lizzie Stark. 45m00s: The 2001 video game Black & White. 45m17s: French literary critic Roland Barthes proposed the idea of the Death of the Author in a 1967 essay, suggesting that critics don't need to understand an author to contextualize their work. 45m24s: The Effing Foundation for Sex Positivity. 47m16s: Thumb Wars (or thumb wrestling) 51m45s: The games A Guide to Casting Phantoms In The Revolution, and Can You Hear Me?  52m34s: Sharang's game Several Miles from Heaven. 53m36s: The Jenga-implementing RPGs Dread and Star Crossed, and the apocalyptic RPG Ten Candles. 54m45s: Metatopia is a game designer convention based in the northeastern US that specializes in tests of board games, TTRPG, and larp. 56m41s: Sharang's solo food-based RPG Verdure. 57m52s: We had Jenn Sandercock on in Ludology 210 - The Way to a Gamer's Heart to discuss her edible games.  58m41s: The 200-word RPG Stardust. 1h00m00s: The bizarre Hellcouch (taking the idea of the "couch co-op to the next level), amd Mattie Brice's empathy machine. 1h00m45s: Marina Abramović's seminal performance art piece Rhythm 0, in which she allowed visitors to do whatever they wanted to her body for 6 hours. Visitors were gentle at first, but became more cruel as the piece went on, several times aiming a loaded gun in her head. The most powerful part of the performance emerged at the end; once the 6 hours ended, Abramović stood up and approached the audience, who promptly left, unable to face her as a person who had regained her bodily autonomy. 1h06m08s: Alex Roberts' Pop! is part of Sharang's project Honey and Hot Wax, co-edited by Lucian Kahn. 1h06m37s: Emma's degree is in Product Design. 1h08m45s: Sharang has written a couple of articles for Killscreen. 1h10m38s: Wingspan. We had the pleasure of chatting with designer Elizabeth Hargrave for Ludology 203 - Winging It. 1h12m15s: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was a horrifying tragedy in which 146 sweatshop workers in New York City were killed by a fire. The workers were locked into their working space, so they could not exit on foot; many leapt to their deaths. The fire resulted in legislation that improved factory safety standards and strengthened union powers.  1h14m42s: Clio Yun-Su Davis' RPG Pass the Sugar Please was run by theater company Intramersive. 1h16m44s: Sharang is referencing Kat Jones' game Glitzy Nails. 1h17m43s: The RPG Flatpack 1h19m34s: The productivity games Habitica, SuperBetter, Chore Wars, and Zombies Run. 1h20m58s: Sharang's game A Shroud for the Seneschal.

In this episode, we will be discussing the ways the mechanics of the game inspire SuperBetter strategies and probing. After[...]

Dr Zac goes through the foundational theory of Gamification & the trends in history. What is a Gamified experience?Time Stamped Notes:[00:05] Gamification blueprint; badges, points, leaderboards, [00:15] Identify an action you want others to take & reward this action[00:50] Intrinsic motivation Vs extrinsic motivation[02:00] 3 Basic human needs & Game Mechanics [03:10] Theory of "Flow" or Full emersion [04:10] 1. Clear Goal 2. Clear Progress 3. Clear and Immediate Feedback and 4. A balance of challenge and skill.[05:10] Different types; Story, Competition, Fantasy, Simulation. [05:40] Gamficaition is based on motivation [06:07] AR, VR & New Game will continue to grow and engage people What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.  Connect with Us on all media: Gamify :)  

In today's #MorningMeeting #DayNine we share resources to draw with Jarrett Krosoczka, watch  #TooCute animals, get #SuperBetter & listen to Kwame Alexander read aloud. Today’s challenge is to #HackYourWindow!

Well, there's no getting around it: the world is still cray. But we're here to talk about how we can get through it together, and try to find the positives along the way. In the last week: Laura tried (unsuccessfully) to buy toilet paper online, Andrew's city of Chicago has been ordered to shelter in place, and #Millennial hosted a coffee break (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYvkYY-ayzU) video stream that was open to any and all to participate. Things to know currently: watch your credit cards for fraud during the COVID-19 crisis, US tax deadline has been pushed to mid-July, Americans may be getting checks to ease the burden, and SOCIAL DISTANCING IS STILL IMPORTANT. In the midst of all this, washed-up politicians are still joining washed-up celebrities on reality TV - the latest misery we've been subjected to? Sarah Palin + bear costume + Baby got back. Apart from normalizing the likes of Sean Spicer and Rick Perry, we've got some gripes about realty TV giving these failed public servants airtime. Technology's effect on anxiety levels is an acknowledged issue, but what about its ability to possibly help minimize anxiety symptoms? Apps like SuperBetter (https://www.superbetter.com/) , Happify (https://www.happify.com/) , and Headspace (https://www.headspace.com/) are great resources we've used to practice mindfulness and minimize negative thinking. And BrightMind (https://www.brightmind.com/selfcare) is currently offering a free year of their meditation app in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This week's recommendations are sure to help grant some much-needed peace: "Ugly Delicious" (Pam), Animal Crossing (Laura & Andrew), and the Daniel Craig "Bond" movies (Andrew). This week's episode is sponsored by Honeybook (https://www.HoneyBook.com/MILL to get 50% off), Bombas (https://www.bombas.com/MILL for 20% off your first purchase), and UnTuckit (https://www.untuckit.com and use code MILL for 20% off your first order). Support #Millennial by supporting our sponsors! And in this week's installment of After Dark: We show you how to socialize distantly while playing a Jackbox games classic (https://jackboxgames.com/) , Drawful! For instructions on setting this up, click here (https://jackboxgames.com/how-to-play-jackbox-games-with-friends-and-family-remotely/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=remoteguide&utm_campaign=remoteguide&utm_content=remoteguide) . Marc and Pat join us to up our player numbers and make things more interesting. One of our self portraits is a penis. Can you guess who? "It looks like... a puddle of puke. Or a swimming pool."

How do you design a product that truly changes people's lives? Our guest today is Amy Bucher — a UX specialist focusing on behavior-change design, and the author of Engaged. You'll learn about the core principles of behavior-change design, how to help users achieve their goals, how accountability works, and how to craft an engaging and motivating product experience.Podcast feed: subscribe to https://feeds.simplecast.com/4MvgQ73R in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music.Show NotesEngaged — Amy's new book on behavior change (also available on Amazon)Mad*Pow — Amy's place of work, a "purpose-driven agency"SuperBetter — a book by Jane McGonigalThe COM-B Behavior Change ModelAtomic Habits — a book by James ClearWhat is Jobs to Be Done (JTBD)?Episode 151: Powerful Case Studies with Joel KlettkeParticipatory design — a Wikipedia articleMotivational interviewing — a Wikipedia articleWhy We Do What We Do — a book by Edward L. Deci with Richard FlasteAmy's personal websiteUse promocode UIBREAKFAST to get 15% off Amy's book, EngagedFollow Amy on Twitter: @amybphdToday's SponsorThis episode is brought to you by Userlist — a lifecycle messaging tool for your SaaS product. At Userlist, our mission is to make your founder journey more enjoyable and less overwhelming. That’s why we built an email automation tool that does exactly what you need. No more, no less. Manage your users, segment them, and get in touch throughout their journey — all based on their behavior. Try Userlist free whenever you’re ready at userlist.com.Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here. Leave a ReviewReviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.

Shownotes: www.unpackingdesign.com/podcast/98Looking for book recommendations for 2020 that will inspire your creative life as a designer? In this episode of Unpacking Design, Mike shares five books that he has found to be inspirational at the end of 2019 for his life as a designer. He shares a brief overview of each book and the reasons why he recommends them to creative professionals.Mike talks about his first book recommendation, Superbetter by Jane McGonigal and the way that designers can overcome problems in their career by thinking about it as a game where every difficulty can be overcome. He transitions into a discussion about Austin Kleon’s book, Keep Going, which is helpful for designers who are feeling stuck or unmotivated in their career.Then, Mike talks about another one of his favorite books, Atomic Habits by James Clear, which teaches readers how to create positive habits through simple tips like creating the paths of least resistance. He shares a book that he personally found helpful for learning about what it’s like to be an architect through a book by Gary Unger called Your Architecture Career. Lastly, Mike ends on Simon Sinek’s book, the Infinite Game, which he has found to be the most inspirational for thinking ahead and planning his career around the long-term outlook of continued practice.Join us as we talk about Mike’s five book recommendations related to career development in this episode of Unpacking Design.—Thank you for listening to Unpacking Design!To share your thoughts and make suggestions, keep the conversation going on twitter with Mike (@archivalley) and Tim (@tim_ung)Please consider leaving an honest rating and review on iTunes and anywhere else that you listen to podcasts. They help us get the show in front of more awesome listeners like you!Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes to make sure you stay up to date on each new show!

Reality is broken. In today’s book, author Jane McGonigal attempts a fix by applying a gameful approach to personal growth. Join Mike & Joe as they examine the idea that playing games can make us better. Links Support the show The Pen Addict (Podcast) Sheaffer 300 (Mike’s fancy pen) Leuchtturm Notebooks Baron Fig James Clear […]

Nir’s Note: Jane McGonigal is a game designer at The Institute for the Future and bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter. She’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. (You can register here!) In this interview with Max Ogles, McGonigal discusses impact of future technologies on behavior, habits, and the way we design products. Q: You recently worked on a project designed to visualize the future of technology. The idea was that using some future, not-yet-existent product, nicknamed FeelThat, people could actually share emotions with each other. (Here’s a link to the video.) What was the thinking behind it?Jane McGonigal: This is a project with Institute for the Future to look at some of the emerging technologies that are being prototyped, tested, and innovated right now. We try to imagine where technologies might take us in a decade or more if they became widespread and popular. We use a process to collect signals, or “clues,” about the future that suggest things that might have the potential to change our lives down the road. You can read the Nir and Far blog post on: The Unbelievable Future of Habit-Forming Technology https://www.nirandfar.com/the-unbelievable-future-of-habit-forming-technology/ Nir & Far, a podcast about business, behaviour and the brain by Nir Eyal. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe on iTunes and leave an iTunes review. It will greatly help new listeners discover the show. Please visit my website Nir and Far for other info about my writing, books and teaching: http://www.nirandfar.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nirandfar/support

Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She is the Author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World and is the inventor and co-founder of SuperBetter, a game that has helped nearly a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury. Our conversation is about how to design useful games, how games effect us and our kids, and what the future might hold. Please enjoy. For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast. Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag   Show Notes 1:22 - (First Question) – Her take on the history of gaming and studying the players themselves 3:44 – Where her passion for gaming really started 4:55 – Her take on flow states 7:47 – Kids and gaming 10:32 – Advice for parents when it comes to the role of games             11:06 – SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient--Powered by the Science of Games 13:53 – Types of games that develop the right skills for kids 16:20 – Four things all games share in common             16:23 – Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World    20:50 – Her take on Carse’s theory about infinite gaming             21:04 – Finite and Infinite Games 26:28 – How to understand gaming culture if you’ve never played a game before 28:28 – Amazon and gaming 31:18 – How fun makes anything more enjoyable 34:55 – How game designers calibrate feedback loops 39:14 – The good and bad of gamifying life 45:01 – What is the superbetter app 52:43 - Why powerups and bad guys are so important in games 57:03 – Secret identity 59:04 – Playing with boundaries 1:00:36 – Most worried about in the gaming world, and most exited about 1:07:32 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Jane   Learn More For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.  Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS EPISODE TALKS ABOUT DEPRESSION AND SEXUAL ABUSE We try to recap season one while talking about Post Traumatic Growth and how the trauma our heros are growing form the hardship they went through. Watch the PTG ted talk here: http://bit.ly/2uIxuZr and download the free app called SuperBetter  Please rate us on iTunes so more people can find us! Patreon: patreon.com/filloriansunited Facebook. fb.me/filloriansunited Twitter: @fillorians Tumblr: filloriansunited.tumblr.com Email: filloriansunited@gmail.com  

I this episode I explore gamification as a remedy to the crisis of engagement in vanlife. Music: Road Trip (https://soundcloud.com/user-427503922/road-trip)by Lane Petrosenko featuring Racquel Deveau (CC BY-NC 3.0) User-427503922 – Road-trip Soundcloud Lead Image: Dolomites (https://flic.kr/p/SFY5rC) by Louise Feige (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Sound Effects: Regular Game Sound Effects 28 (https://freesound.org/s/219975/ ) by B Lamerichs (CCby0) Regular Game Sound Effects 20 (https://freesound.org/s/219983/ ) by B Lamerichs (CCby0)NC-ND 2.0) Sound Effect; Typewriter (http://soundbible.com/827-Typewriter.html ) By tamskp (CC BY 3.0) My Blog: communication-generation.com/ Transcript: As we have explored previously, Vanlifers, in a tradition traced from the transcendentalist’s trough to the #vanlifers suffer from a crisis of engagement in what mainstream society is offering them. You already know about gamification, because of flyby rewards systems. LinkedIn prompts us to complete profiles and a big balloon shows 80% complete. But whatever I do I can never actually reach 100% because the more data LinkedIn has the more money they can extract trough advertising. I instead gave the SuperBetter resilience building gamified platform a try as an elixir to this crisis of engagement. Resilience is the ability to stay strong, motivated and optimistic even in the face of difficult obstacles. Dounds good to. The founder Jane McGonigal sees gamification as a means of building collective intelligence to improve the quality of human life and combat social ills. I’m in. I signed up, modified my avatar and I choose a chellenge. I then had to choose a realistic but challenging Epic Win - something that is hard right now and will involve some degree of difficulty to achieve. I typed in “Enjoy Life”. Supper Better then used almost all the available game like mechanics and elements to help. Quests built confidence and optimism by providing practical concrete steps. Future boosts provided incremental rewards. Power-ups provided the strength and energy to achieve quests. I killed bad guys which were the thoughts, habits, and situations I wanted to avoid. I found Allies to encourage my progress. M progress bars which measure my current physical, mental, emotional and social resilience went up and I earned badges. I faced tougher challenges without giving up and my resilience grew further both in my life and on the screen. I relish challenges and have become stronger, happier, and more connected to the positive people I surround myself with. I’m focusing less on outcomes and goals and enjoying the moment and each small victory. Gamification and resilience can work together to help individuals and society achieve hard-earned wins. Can gamification can work in countering the malaise of contemporary society and the crisis of engagement from which the #vanlifers have long suffered?

Video games! Tabletop games! IRL role-play gaming! The ... lottery? Dr. Jane McGonigal is a video game developer, TED speaker, bestselling author and total badass with a deep knowledge of how games -- and especially video games -- can motivate, soothe and connect us. We talk about everything from Monopoly to dance offs, Fortnite, vintage Atari, VR, the challenge of Dark Souls, the sweetness of League of Legends, how Tetris can get you through rough times and the health issue that caused Dr. McGonigal to create her huge hit, SuperBetter. Also: why everyone who loves games and everyone who hates games should hear this. JaneMcGonigal.com Dr. Jane McGonigal on Twitter: @Avantgame Sponsor links: TakeCareof.com (code: OLOGIES50), LinkedIn.com/Ologies, StitchFix.com/ologies This week's donation was made to AbleGamers.org More links at alieward.com/ologies/ludology Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Follow @Ologies on Twitter or Instagram Follow @AlieWard on Twitter or Instagram Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show.

Jeśli życie ciągle robi Ci pod górkę, cierpisz z powodu choroby lub rozstania, albo masz po prostu dość próbowania i chcesz raz a dobrze wprowadzić trwałą zmianę w swoim życiu i osiągnąć wymarzone cele, to od lat masz pod ręką narzędzie, które może Ci w Tym pomóc. To narzędzie proste w użyciu, łatwe w implementacji, a przede wszystkim przyjemne jak rodzinny spacer po górach w letni dzień. To narzędzie to grywalizacja. Jane McGonigal pokazuje w swojej książce Superbetter w jaki sposób wdrożyć elementy z gier w swoim życiu i ułatwić sobie osiąganie wymarzonych celów. Ta książka jest dla Ciebie, jeśli: * masz przed sobą wyzwania lub problemy, które Cię przytłaczają * walczysz z przewlekłą chorobą * chcesz wprowadzić dowolną zmianę w swoim życiu, ale ciągle Ci nie wychodzi * chcesz podejść do życia na luzie, bez ciągłej spiny Z tej książki dowiesz się, jak: * wprowadzić trwałą zmianę w swoim życiu * małymi krokami i z radością osiągać cele * zwiększyć swoją skuteczność * radzić sobie z problemami w życiu * przetrwać ciężkie chwile z uśmiechem na ustach Podana w tym nagraniu metoda nie jest substytutem leczenia, więc jeśli cierpisz na depresję, traumę powypadkową, lub inne schorzenie natury psychicznej, to skontaktuj się z lekarzem lub terapeutą. Jeśli nie masz czasu czytać, posłuchaj w wolnej chwili wersji audio: Listen to “KKU#32 – Superbetter – Jane McGonigal” on Spreaker. Esencja Gry są pomocne, jeśli wiemy jak z nich mądrze korzystać. Jane McGonigal opisuje, pokazuje i przekonuje, że możemy w codziennym życiu wykorzystać te same mechanizmy, z których korzystają projektanci gier. Daje nam też prosty schemat, na bazie którego zbudowała Superbetter – system, który pomaga zgrywalizować życie, byśmy łatwiej radzili sobie z problemami i skuteczniej rozwijali umiejętności. Schemat Superbetter to 7 kroków: * Podejmij wyzwanie – kiedy mierzysz się z problemem, to mimo wszystko podejmij rękawicę; zmień nastawienie na zagrożenie (strach) na nastawienie na wyzwanie (szansa); strach paraliżuje, a szansa zachęca do działania. * Zbieraj i aktywuj doładowania – korzystaj z czynności, myśli i zachowań, które wzmacniają Ci psychicznie, fizycznie, emocjonalnie i społecznie; w każdym z tych obszarów stwórz listę wspierających i rozwijających zachowań, które dodają Ci energii i pomagają w codziennych trudach. * Rozpoznaj czarne charaktery i walcz z nimi – pokonywanie słabości, działanie pomimo wewnętrznego oporu i w zgodzie z tym, co dla Ciebie ważne daje poczucie satysfakcji i spełnienia; dąż do tego, by przynajmniej raz dziennie pokonać czarny charakter, który stoi na Twojej drodze: oczywiście najpierw zidentyfikuj co nim jest. * Wymyśl i realizuj zadania – realizacja zadań, które wspierają nas w rozwoju i pokonywaniu słabości jest kluczowa; bez działania nie ma postępu; dla obranego celu opracuj ścieżkę działań, które doprowadzą Cię do celu lub wesprą w codziennych trudach. * Pozyskaj sojuszników – w drużynie jest raźniej; zbierz ją, gdy wyruszysz w drogę; jeśli masz wokół siebie osoby wspierające Cię w dążeniach, to realnie i znacznie zwiększasz swoją szansę na epickie zwycięstwo. * Stwórz sekretną tożsamość – opracuj alter ego na podstawie swoich mocnych stron; opisz siebie...

وهذي أول حلقة لسنة ٢٠١٩ ونطلقها اليوم مع ضيف جديد وصديق من الإمارات وبودكاستر كمان… الرائع سعيد الشامسي من بودكاست روت كويست واللي أتكلمنا معاه على الألعاب الإلكترونية وأنواعها المختلفة من الجديد للقديم. وأتكلمنا على لعبة فورتنايت إللي غزت العالم وعقول الكبار والصغار، واتكلمنا عن مدى تأثير ألعاب الكمبيوتر علينا بشكل سلبي أو إيجابي. وممكن تقرأوا أكثر عن تأثيرات الألعاب في كتاب بعنوان سوبر بتر (Superbetter) للكاتبة جين مكجونيجال. وكالعادة دخلنا وخرجنا في مواضيع مختلفة وأضطرينا إننا نوقف تسجيل لأن لو أستمرينا كان صار طول الحلقة خمسة ساعات! وممكن تتابعوا أعمال قناة روت كويست هنا وممكن تسمعوا بودكاست روت كويست هنا

وهذي أول حلقة لسنة ٢٠١٩ ونطلقها اليوم مع ضيف جديد وصديق من الإمارات وبودكاستر كمان… الرائع سعيد الشامسي من بودكاست روت كويست واللي أتكلمنا معاه على الألعاب الإلكترونية وأنواعها المختلفة من الجديد للقديم. وأتكلمنا على لعبة فورتنايت إللي غزت العالم وعقول الكبار والصغار، واتكلمنا عن مدى تأثير ألعاب الكمبيوتر علينا بشكل سلبي أو إيجابي. وممكن تقرأوا أكثر عن تأثيرات الألعاب في كتاب بعنوان سوبر بتر (Superbetter) للكاتبة جين مكجونيجال. وكالعادة دخلنا وخرجنا في مواضيع مختلفة وأضطرينا إننا نوقف تسجيل لأن لو أستمرينا كان صار طول الحلقة خمسة ساعات! وممكن تتابعوا أعمال قناة روت كويست هنا وممكن تسمعوا بودكاست روت كويست هنا

Host of The Jordan Harbinger Show, Jordan Harbinger is here to discuss rebuilding your life, brain technology and the book Super Better. He also shares with Kristen how he has a new found respect for people who suffer with anxiety and how the gym helps keep him in a good frame of mind. Also discussed; headstands and not dressing like a bum. Check out Jordan on Twitter @JordanHarbinger --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kristencommachill/message

Jane McGonigal (@avantgame) specializes in designing games that challenge players to tackle real-world problems, and is the bestselling author of Reality is Broken. Her new book is SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver, and More Resilient -- Powered by the Science of Games. What We Discuss with Jane McGonigal: Discover how suffering from suicidal ideation after a concussion led Jane McGonigal to design games to help people overcome depression and recover from trauma. Find out what games can teach us about critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and our ability to collaborate. Explore the ways a "gameful" mindset can boost our motivation, confidence, and ability to pick up new skills in the face of obstacles. Examine the benefits of post-traumatic growth -- and how it can counterintuitively coexist in tandem with the disadvantages of post-traumatic stress. Identify how developing psychological flexibility can help you conquer phobias, recover from injuries, and achieve what you once thought impossible. And much more... Like this show? Please leave us a review here -- even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking -- our free networking and relationship development mini course -- at jordanharbinger.com/course! Full show notes and resources can be found here.

Okay so I am beginning to bring a little more of my personal interests inot the podcast based on feedback about the biohacking episode with my friend Pete. This time I bring you Paula Eggers who is a great friend, Yoga teacher and also a fellow biohacker and today she tells her story of (in her words) going from the scrapheap to health and using the internet, technology and the Superbetter game- yes this is another episode with gaming in and this time its for the many facets of health and wellbeing. Paula is a well versed and educated biohacking compliment to this epsisode and as a friend. I really loved this episode as this felt just like we were chatting on the phone. Fasten your seat-belts as we name drop (a lot) to give you the biggest episode on how you can optimise your own health and progress in life, how you can now read/listen and watch all of these fantastic resources and biohack your own way to optimal performance. Come and join us on this cram packed episode where we talk m

Prudence is joined this week by Jane McGonigal, the inventor of SuperBetter, a mobile game that has helped over a million people recover faster from depression and traumatic brain injury. Together they take on letters about what to do when you feel your spouse overshares about her work, how to handle feelings of guilt when your libido doesn’t match your partners, and what actions you should take when you find out your adult daughter and your neighbor have been having an affair. Slate Plus members will hear Prudie and Jane discuss a letter writer who is wondering how to handle a coworker who regularly berates colleagues they deem “inferior”, and what to do about a mother who has been taking the “silent treatment” too far for too long. Not yet a member? Sign up at Slate.com/PrudiePod. Email: prudencepodcast@gmail.comProduction by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prudence is joined this week by Jane McGonigal, the inventor of SuperBetter, a mobile game that has helped over a million people recover faster from depression and traumatic brain injury. Together they take on letters about what to do when you feel your spouse overshares about her work, how to handle feelings of guilt when your libido doesn’t match your partners, and what actions you should take when you find out your adult daughter and your neighbor have been having an affair. Slate Plus members will hear Prudie and Jane discuss a letter writer who is wondering how to handle a coworker who regularly berates colleagues they deem “inferior”, and what to do about a mother who has been taking the “silent treatment” too far for too long. Not yet a member? Sign up at Slate.com/PrudiePod. Email: prudencepodcast@gmail.comProduction by Phil Surkis This episode is brought to you by RXBAR, protein bars made from real, natural ingredients. Visit rxbar.com/prudence and use the promo code prudence for 25% off your first order. Away makes luggage that is designed to be resilient, resourceful, and essential to the way you travel today. For $20 off a suitcase, visit awaytravel.com/prudence and use the promo code prudence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

High school student Lea discusses the SuperBetter app. For more information on SuperBetter visit superbetter.com. Lea also discusses What’s Up - A mental health app published by Jackson Tempra.

Maggie Minsk is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of North Carolina and a National Certified Counselor (NCC). She is also a Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) and Certified Instructor (CI) with the National Guild of Hypnotists (the largest and oldest hypnotherapy association), was trained by Captain M. Ron Eslinger, RN, CRNA, MA, APN, BCH, CMI, CI, FNGH with Healthy Visions and is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).   Maggie discusses the importance of doing your own research, the power self-hypnosis, and introduces us to the concepts of post-traumatic growth, pronoia and Human Givens. Plus, why common sense isn’t really sensible and the books you should be reading to flip your own mind.     Show Notes: 3:19 Dr. Amir Raz 4:12 Maggie’s personal Mind Flipping Story: Being a smoking non-smoker 6:34 Client Mind Flipping Story: Stuck in Negative Hypnosis 8:36 From teacher to Mind Flipping 9:15 Many Lives Many Masters by Brian Weiss 10:09 Learned Optimism 10:43 “Hypnosis is an accelerant.” –Maggie Minsk 12:38 What self-sabotage really is 13:55 The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz 15:14 Human Givens & The Human Givens Institute 16:17 Joe Griffin & Ivan Tyrell 16:39 SuperBetter by Jane McGonigal 18:29 “Hypnotize yourself or someone else will.”—Unknown 18:46 Bruce Lipton & Being in “the zone” 19:07 Mindfulness 19:46 The importance of mindset 20:41 Mind Flipping Moments: Learning new things 21:08 Maggie’s Word of the Day: Pronoia 21:48 Maggie’s Phrase of the Day: Post-traumatic Growth 23:06 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder 24:25 The common belief with which Maggie disagrees 26:56 Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) 28:50 What Maggie always thought she’d be believe, but doesn’t anymore 29:54 Common sense isn’t always correct 30:45 Neuroplasticity 32:32 Episode with Art Giser & Energy work 33:27 Conscious vs. Subconscious mind 34:04 Maggie’s request for listeners: Learn for yourself to be fully engaged in life 35:20 The Flow State & Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 36:12 Get Maggie’s favorite hypnosis recording: CLICK HERE & check the Resources Menu For more information about Maggie and her services, CLICK HERE.

Categorized – 00:28 Top 3 Turf War – Our favourite Movies based on book we’ve read. What’s new with us!  – 17:54 Ivana’s reading a book called “Super Better” and gives Jay tips on how to gamify his life. Drop Some Science   – 26:31 Ivana quizzes Jay with Health Questions..and […]

Today’s episode is about social reflection, which is one of the many “power ups” from Dr. Jane McGonigal’s book (and app) called SuperBetter, that can be used to make your day go better. As with all things on my podcast, this technique is backed by scientific research and has been shown to increase vagal tone and promote savoring. It’s a very powerful technique that o suggest you try today and repeat often! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/morehappylife/support

#06 Episode with Jeff Namnum –  Guy, Geek & Guru JAN 10, 2018   Badass Quotes: “I’m very rarely an “I”. I’m usually a “we”.” (2:10) “Can I actually go into Hooters?” (6:00) “That is when I panicked.” (6:59) “Ignorance is great because you don’t know that you can f*ck things up.” (7:36) “It was totally, full-on, fear based decision making.” (8:50) “I know now that I was going through a depression.” (13:35) “I’m still thinking the only way I can make money is to get in my car is to drive to a place and go.” (17:10) “I am supposed to be able to take care of these people.” (19:10) “Now we are replacing affection with attention.” (35:50) “A fixed point in time doesn’t make for change. I’m working on stuff constantly.” (49:46)   Podcast Intro: Jeff Namnum is a guy’s guy and a girl’s guy. He started in tech by taking PCs apart and putting them back together and was the Geek Squad before the Geek Squad was the Geek Squad. He learned the hard way about what happens when you grow a business too fast and because of it, he found out what it takes to start over … and over and over. Now he is a partner at Touchlab, a company that designs and develops android things, a man of strong faith, husband to Ruby for over 20 years and father to three kids. He’s made a lot of mistakes and he loves taking photographs of coffee.   Official Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/namnum   Biggest Takeaways: What was/is “tech” (4:00) How growing his business busted his business (6:30) How he become unstuck (13:15) What to do when you get released from jail (21:05) How to learn to ask for help (25:00) How to have the sex talk with your teenage kid (34:00) What scares Jeff right now (41:00) How to engage in conversation with someone on Twitter (51:42)   Major Conversation Highlights How the layoff announcements after 9/11 offered him career motivation (3:00) Why he moved 4 times in 2 years (9:12) Why you always want to have car insurance - and good brakes (17:15) Why being mad at God is okay (23:00) How he makes his marriage work (26:50) What it’s like being a father of a teenage girl (32:30) How his daughter is his relationship-building role model (39:25) How recognizing his anxiety helps to manage it (43:18) Jeff’s 7-line pitch (46:50) The coolest thing in tech right now (52:17)   Social Media Twitter http://twitter.com/namnum http://twitter.com/touchlabny   Instagram http://instagram.com/namnum http://instagram.com/touchlabny   Links Touchlab https://www.touchlab.co   Super Better http://amzn.to/2mbKNwQ   Block Chain Technology https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-blockchain-technology/   Brave SUBSCRIBE or buy BADASS t-shirt! https://www.morebrave.com/thebraveshop   Twitter: http://twitter.com/getmorebrave http://twitter.com/cristasamaras   Instagram: http://instagram.com/getmorebrave http://instagram.com/cristasamaras   Facebook: http://facebook.com/getmorebrave

Niche Radio — If you were born in 1980 or later I don’t think this will come as much of a surprise to you: Gaming – videogames, sports games and puzzles – can change your life! Gaming is actually good for you and gamer, author, speaker & all-out-cool-chick, Jane McGonigal has over ten years’ worth of scientific evidence to back it up. In her latest NY Times-bestselling book, SuperBetter, she shares how gaming can help those suffering with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder and that what we got to chat about when I interviewed her at the BCX Disrupt Summit in Johannesburg. It’s a short but super interesting discussion! Enjoy! Stace Thi episode was brought to you by the BCX Disrupt Summit www.bcxdisrupt.com

This episode is basically “Peaceful Productivity 6.” Self-care’s something with which we grapple, Like a gargoyle on top of a chapel. But a fancy new watch Is truly top notch: I speak of the watch made by Apple. The Spoon Theory: the origin of “spoons” and “spoonie” gamification, Reality is Broken, chorewars.com, SuperBetter, Zombies Run […]

Productivity Book Group [ http://productivitybookgroup.org ] discussed SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient–Powered by the Science of Games, [ http://amzn.to/2jh5Q2D ] by Jane McGonigal, PhD. Enjoy […]

Ep. 13: We’re diving into Jane McGonigal’s Superbetter this week. It’s a long book so we’re taking our time. We cover chapters 1-4, Josué proposes some questionable practices, and Kelli gets to process her feelings about playing with strangers. *This episode was originally published on 9/23/15 as part of PsychTech. Please forgive any audio issues. […] The post Superbetter Fan Club Book Club #1 (of 3) appeared first on Headshots: The Psychology and Gaming Podcast.

Ep. 14: The Superbetter love continues! We cover chapters 5-8 of Jane McGonigal’s Superbetter and dive deep into the first four rules of how to be gameful: 1) Challenge yourself, 2) collect and activate power-ups, 3) find and battle the bad guys, 4) seek out and complete quests. *This episode was originally published on 10/7/15 […] The post Superbetter Fan Club Book Club #2 (of 3) appeared first on Headshots: The Psychology and Gaming Podcast.

Ep. 15: Like Return of the Jedi, the third installment of our PsychTech Superbetter Fan Club Book Club is the best yet! We cover chapters 9 – 12, rant passionately about feedback loops, discuss the importance of allies, explore the power of identity, and share some of the ways they’ve been getting Superbetter. *This episode […] The post Superbetter Fan Club Book Club #3 (of 3) appeared first on Headshots: The Psychology and Gaming Podcast.

Dave, Jami and Tony talk about the first volume of the graphic novel series Paper Girls, the self-help/memoir 10% Happier by Dan Harris, the wellness apps Habitica, Life RPG and SuperBetter, and the Netflix series Luke Cage.

Today we are talking about three sure fire ways to reach your goals.   You may have heard me tell Jane McGonigals' story before.   On her way to finishing her PHD in Game Design    Jane was in a major accident in 2009. A concussion left her with a lot of complications. She constantly had a headache, was fatigued, couldn't read, type of look at a screen of any type.    Jane fell into a depression because her life was put on halt. She physically couldn't do what she loved and devoted her life to doing.    Her outcome is astonishing. She used the principles of Game Design and applied them to her life to to get better, reach her goals and have fun doing it.   She documents the accident in her book Superbetter.   Why do I tell you this story?   Jane is a huge proponent of Self Efficacy.    What is self Efficacy you may ask.    Basically SE is your belief in yourself to accomplish your goals.   Psychologist show the more you believe in yourself accomplishing your goals, the more you will accomplish your goals.    Novel Idea.   But what happens if you are not feeling it?    What happens if your body won't let you accomplish your goals?   Here are three hacks to help you build self efficacy and defeat the narrative of being self effacing.    Hack number one comes straight from Jane's book super better.   In the book Jane tells a story of a woman who tricked herself into exercising, and being social even though those 2 traits where not in her wheel house.   How did she do it?   You may laugh at this but she started playing an online game called the sims.   The sims is an online simulation game of life. You can create an avatar and make the avatar act in certain ways. The game prompts you to take certain actions to make your avatar feel well.    A huge part of “winning' in the sims is how your avatar feels.    Things like food, exercise and social interactions helps your sim feel good. And the computer prompts you to make your character feel good.   There is one huge caveat to why this works.    The virtual human interaction lab founded by Dr Jermey Balinson shows self efficacy grows when you watch an avatar of yourself do the action in which you want to do.    The tactic is called Vicarious exercise.    Participants in a study who watched an avatar that looked like themselves exercised for a whole hour more than those who didn't. They walked more, took the stairs more often and spent more time at the gym.   In order for this hack to work, your avatar has to look just like you.    This creates what Scientist call a  mirror neuron effect.    Mirror neurons mimic the brain activity of people around us. because the participants felt closer to the avatar because it looked like them, they in experienced the mirror neuron effect.    Crazy!!    Go play the sims, make a character that looks just like you and watch them work.   Hack #2 is a little more straight forward. Its called Minimum Viable Product / Minimum Viable Progress.   Think about the goal you want to achieve.   Next you identify the most important aspect of that goal.    If you are wanting to create something you want to focus on a minimum viable product. What ever you create you are only focusing on one feature, the most important thing.   If you are wanting to reach a personal goal where there is no product, like loose weight, you want to focus on a minimum viable progress.   Say your goal is to start a business. A MVP is the one thing you would offer starting today.    If you dream is to open a gym, jump right to one thing you can do to add value to your customer today.    So a dream of a gym is out of the picture, but offering a running group that meets twice a week is something you can do today and charge for. You are now one step closer to your goal.   If you are wanting to change something about yourself, or your surroundings, focusing on a minimum viable progress looks like finding the one thing that will make the most difference.    If it is loosing weight, commit to one thing like eating the same boring salad and tuna for lunch. or 5 minutes of burpees every morning.    If you are writing a book, just commit 15 mins to writing every morning and don't touch it for the rest of the day.    MVPs work because it free's your brain of having to burn calories of planning a huge process, and never having to accomplish it because you spent all that mental work on preparation and don't have any willpower left over to actually do it.   Willpower is a finite resource, MVPs maximize your willpower as a resource.   Hack #3 is to implement what I call the one touch timer.   I use an app on my computer and phone called Comodoro One and commit to work in a cycle of 25 mins of work and a 5 minute break.    I make sure I commit to finish the work in one touch. I will not come back to it, so If I don't finish it, I ship it out half baked.    Half baked is looked down upon in our society, but perfectionism keeps us from reaching our goals.    I like to embrace the truism Done is better than perfect.    If I commit to a one touch timer I have to stick to it. This has helped with finishing small projects, making sure I don't overcomplicate things with perfectionism and makes sure I focus on my most valuable resource, my time.   So to recap:   Hack #1 - Watch an avatar to build self efficacy. Hack #2 - Find a Minimum Viable Product or Progress to get you started. Hack #3 - Use the One Touch Timer method and ship a half baked product rather than not shipping.   You can follow me on all social media @nick_ovalle.   Until we chat again, I hope you live a great story. 

Today I had a wonderful talk with Zack Schuler. Zack is the founder and CEO of Ninjio, which is an I.T. Security Awareness business.   We discuss how 95 % of all breaches are caused by human error. It seems like such an obvious problem. But what can you do about this? Zach’s company has developed a way using a team of Hollywood writers to develop compelling security education and training to not just have your IT professionals involved in IT defense but have all your employees involved. 4 Key Learning Points: The importance of the gamification of security training in developing a security culture The importance of entertainment in storytelling How to deploy training easily and efficiently. How to measure the effectiveness of training. Zack Schuler Zack is the founder and CEO of Ninjio, which is an I.T. Security Awareness business.   Zack is passionate about keeping people safe from the countless cyber threats that are ever increasing. Listen to more about how to help train staff on increasing security awareness and education through a unique method of gamification and storytelling. Time Stamped Show Notes: How Zack found Ninjio [02:56] Thoughts on securing the weakest link in the chain [04:22] How to spend money on tools and make them your allies[05:03] Zack's opinion on end user responsibilities  [06:01] The main cause of most breaches and ways to fight it [06:55] Discussing the tendency of spending money on technology instead of educating humans about security [07:29] Creating an inter-active environment to educate people[08:10] Elaborating on the importance of creating a story to help people retain new information. [09:30] How to create a teachable moment in order to get people to learn. [10:12] Changing the culture of how people learn about security is more entertaining [10:35] Security Awareness training is not easy needs a different educational approach[11:11] Thoughts on security documentation and plethora of policies. [14:07] Zack Schuler’s gives details on his educational approach [15:21] Monitoring educational progress with the help of dashboard [16:35] Zack's concept validation with the help of Knowbe4 . [17:22] What security awareness companies are implementing the training[18:14] Building gamification into a product [20:03] Thoughts on gamification and Jane McGonigal's book Super Better [21:11] Elaborating on the importance of employee education [23:23]    

When computer game expert Jane McGonigal suffered a concussion, she had a hard time recovering from the constant headaches, fatigue, confusion and depression. To give herself achievable goals and make her recovery more attainable, she invented a game she calls SuperBetter. The Benefits of a Gameful Mindset: You can use the gameful approach she describes […]

In our inaugural episode, Dave, Jami and Tony discuss the game Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector, the book SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient--Powered by the Science of Games by Jane McGonigal, the comic book series Darth Vader, and the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to Jane McGonigal, a designer of alternate reality games, about her latest innovation SuperBetter. Designed to aid her recovery from a brain injury and subsequent depression, the game reportedly gives people a sense of control over their own health. Harnessing the mind in the fight against chronic illnesses is the subject of Jo Marchant's book, Cure, which looks at the latest research into the science of mind over body. Rational thought and magic went hand in hand in the Renaissance period and the philosopher AC Grayling looks back at the life of John Dee - mathematician, alchemist and the Queen's conjurer. The actor Simon McBurney tests the limits of perception and human consciousness as he recreates what it feels like to be lost in the remote part of the Brazilian rainforest. Producer: Katy Hickman.

Amber Mac and Michael B speak to Yahoo's Senior Director, Arjun Sethi, about LiveText and why the future of live video chats is silent. Plus, GadgetMatch's Michael Josh joins us from Seattle to talk Xbox, Surface and more.  Also, SuperBetter's Jane McGonigal on how playing video games helps us solve problems and tackle obstacles in everyday life.

Gamers rejoice! Bestselling author, video game designer, and TED talk superstar Jane McGonigal stops by to discuss her research on the positive effects of video gaming. She's a goldmine of science-backed information on how games can fight depression and PTSD, encourage creativity and help to achieve real world goals. We get personal as Jane shares the struggle with a traumatic brain injury that led her to create the sensationally popular video game and book SuperBetter, which have helped over 500k people live healthier and happier lives. We also cover topics like post ecstatic growth, finding your passion, gamifying your life, the importance of struggle and well-being.

Jane McGonigal is an author and game designer who believes that playing games and adopting gameful mindset can help improve our health, relationships, and her new book, Superbetter, explains how. In this episode we talk about Superbetter and how it works, we talk about not judging games by their content but by how the game is played, co-operative games vs competitive games, the intersection of games & therapy and more. Check out her book here: http://www.amazon.com/SuperBetter-Revolutionary-Approach-Stronger-Resilient-Powered/dp/1594206368 Edited by Alex Kontis For feedback, message me @eriktorenberg

Games are great at activating our motivation and putting us in a problem solving mindset. On this episode, Jane McGonigal discussed SuperBetter, a method of using a gameful mindset to approach challenges in life.

Jane McGonigal, Ph.D. came on the show to talk about SUPERBETTER, video game culture, creativity, happiness, and how a personal trauma inspired her to write this book. About the book: http://bit.ly/1KQNUnb

An interview with Jane McGonigal, author of Reality Is Broken and expert on game psychology. Her latest book, SuperBetter, is about using the power of gaming to get stronger, happier, braver, and more resilient.

Jane McGonigal is the internationally acclaimed game designer and author, most recently of "SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient–Powered by the Science of Games". In a wide-ranging conversation, she spoke at MIT with Scot Osterweil, creative director of the MIT Education Arcade (education.mit.edu). The event was hosted by Harvard Book Store.

Jane McGonigal is a game designer and author who advocates the use of mobile and digital technology to channel positive attitudes and collaboration in a real world context. Her new book SUPERBETTER is available September 15, 2015.

Jane McGonigal is a game designer and author who advocates the use of mobile and digital technology to channel positive attitudes and collaboration in a real world context. Her new book SUPERBETTER is available September 15, 2015.

Jane McGonigal (@avantgame), PhD, is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Future and the author of The New York Times bestseller Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times. She has been called one of the "top ten innovators to watch" by BusinessWeek and one of the "100 most creative people in business” by Fast Company. Her TED talks on games have been viewed more than ten million times. In this conversation, we dig into everything from recovering from head trauma to how you can use Candy Crush Saga to lose weight. Not enough? How about using Tetris to prevent PTSD, or using Call of Duty to increase empathy? Her latest book is SuperBetter, which offers a revolutionary (science-based) approach for getting stronger, happier, and more resilient. I’ve been testing it, and it works. Not only am I feeling better, but I’m having more fun. As adults, we often lose track of play. My hope is that this episode will help you to reclaim it. It’s not frivolous; it can help you get a lot more done with less stress. In this episode we discuss: Examples of real world problems that are solved with games or by gamers How Jane climbed herself out of the hole of suicidal thoughts Action steps for using gaming lessons and applying them to real life How to build a quest into your life The health effects of Candy Crush Saga On the use of psychedelics to simulate traumatic experiences And much more... Links, resources, and show notes from this episode can be found at http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast This episode is sponsored by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, “If you could only use one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is, inevitably, Athletic Greens. It is my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body and did not get paid to do so. Get 50% off your order at Athletic Greens.com/Tim This podcast is also brought to you by 99Designs, the world’s largest marketplace of graphic designers. Did you know I used 99Designs to rapid prototype the cover for The 4-Hour Body? Here are some of the impressive results. Click this link and get a free $99 upgrade. Give it a test run... Enjoy!***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Visit tim.blog/sponsor and fill out the form.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss

"Steer a course for a brave new world of common sense and wonder" Trouble In Mind - Erland & The Carnival The Moss - Cosmo Sheldrake Charlie - Chumbawamba Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols I'm Good, I'm Gone - Lykke Li Dance Floor - The Apples In Stereo Arctic Shark - Quilt Dead Future - Standard Fare Destroyer's the Temple - Destroyer Clever Girl - The Doubleclicks The Sky Was Pink - James Holden Remix - Monoblok, Ohlf Image from SuperBetter  

What makes a good educational game? This semester I included a section on games and game design in my authoring tools course, a graduate level course in the Educational Technology MA.  It's the first time for this unit, so I was interested in how it was going to go, and I kept the parameters and assessment loose.   I'm very happy with the work, and I hope many of the students continue with their games.   As I review the students' work I' have made some observations on what would make a good educational game:Fable Table: A game where students create fables from remixing elements of existing stories.The game cannot simply be an assessment (any Jeopardy-like game is a nonstarter).  At its best, the game should teach something, not just reinforce.The game should give a kids with a variety of subject area knowledge a chance to be engaged. e.g. it doesn't reward kids for what they came into class with.The game mechanic should be the message. i.e. the skill, habit, knowledge should be baked into the game play.Engaging and funSimple instructionsLow barrier to entryTry to avoid a zero-sum/winner-take-all objective The element of luck helps to move the game from an assessment and gives kids with different abilities a fighting chance at engagement, dice, wild cards, switches, and reversals.Competitive games that have a strong assessment element just reinforce traditional teaching and reward the advanced students and stigmatize the struggling students.I must admit that I was a skeptic to games in education.  For every student who loves Monopoly, there's one who hates it.  However, there's something about the 'timelessness' of games that makes me respect them too.  Almost every civilization has used them for teaching, culture, and socialization. Here's the actual assignment:**********Develop a Game Games have been defined as: “One or more causally linked series of challenges in a simulated environment” --Adams and Rollings “A system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.”-- Salen and Zimmerman You will design a board game, a card game, video game, online game, a web-based game (not a webquest).   Game Criteria Your game should have: A worthwhile objective for playing the game. This is not the objective of winning the game, but the objective of playing the game…e.g. the game objective of SuperBetter is to score a certain number of points but the objective of playing the game is to get mentally and/or physically healthy.Inviting and low-barrier to entry (invite people to continue once they start and increasingly challenge them them as  they continue) 3-6 core mechanics (main, important actions a player does).  “The mechanic is the message” Increasing challenge RulesFeel free to think of an existing game and modify it.   Your game should have a short explanation (3-4 pages) and a working model. A description of the objective of the game A description of the core mechanics and an analysis of why they work in the service of the objective of the game.A description of the rulesA description of how the game would be played, with an emphasis on how it starts and how it gets more challengingInfluences or inspirations (this can be other games, books, experiences)A working prototype of the game (card game, board game, etc.) ********ResourcesWe use the work of Institute of Play's Gamekit as well as these books. BibliographyKoster, R. (2004). A theory of fun for game design.  Phoenix, AZ: Paraglyph Press.Mcgonigal, J. (2011). Reality is broken: Why games make us better and how they can change the world.  New York, New York: Penguin Books.Salen, K.  (2007).  The ecology of games:  Connecting youth, games, and learning (p. 278).  Boston, MA: MIT Press.Salen, K, Torres, R, Wolozin, L, Rufo-Tepper, R, & Shapiro, A. (2011) Quest to learn: Creating the school for digital kids.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  Available online at http://dmlcentral.net/sites/dmlcentral/files/resource_files/Quest_to_LearnMacfoundReport.pdfSalen, K. & Zimmerman, E. (2004). The rules of play.  Boston, MA: MIT Press.

#7: John Solomon, Superbetter Labs CEO. Josué and John talk about Superbetter, a health game/tool from the minds of Jane McGonigal and the team at Superbetter Labs. Learn more about what Superbetter is and how it’s helping people not only feel better but actually get better. The post Superbetter! appeared first on Geek Therapy.

For more information, check out http://superbetter.com or follow @superbetter (on Twitter).