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Games teach us how to create opportunities for freely chosen, challenging work that keeps us at the limits of our abilities, and those lessons can be transferred to real life.
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Compared with games, reality is depressing. Games focus our energy, with relentless optimism, on something we’re good at and enjoy.
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We need games that make us happier even when we’re not playing. Only then will we find the right balance between playing our favorite games an making the most of our real lives.
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…there are many ways to be happy, but we cannot find happiness. No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness – by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.
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As long as we are regularly immersed in self-rewarding hard work, we will be happy more often than not – no matter what else is going on in our lives.
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Flourishing isn’t about pleasure or satisfaction; it’s about living up to our fullest potential. And to truly flourish, we have to be optimistic about our own abilities and opportunities for success.
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How do we get more meaning in our lives? It’s actually quite simple… the single best way to add meaning to our lives is to connect our daily actions to something bigger than ourselves – and the bigger, the better.
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Joining any collective effort and embracing feelings of awe can help us unlock our potential to lead a meaningful life and to leave a meaningful mark on the world.
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As we develop alternate realities, we need to be both open-minded and critical about what actually raises our quality of life, what helps us participate more fully in our real lives, and what simply serves as yet another distraction.
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The more we start to monitor and self-report through daily activities… the more we’ll be able to chart our progress, set goals, accept challenges, and support each other in our real lives in the way we do in our best games.
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