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Quit while you’re ahead…when the game you are playing or the path you are on is a losing proposition.
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The people who continue to write off games will be at a major disadvantage in the coming years.
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Games, in the twenty-first century, will be a primary platform for enabling the future.
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When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.
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Games make us happy because they are hard work that we choose for ourselves, and it turns out that almost nothing makes us happier than good, hard work.
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All good gameplay is hard work. It’s hard work that we enjoy and choose for ourselves. And when we do hard work that we care about, we are priming our minds for happiness.
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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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Compared with games, reality is unproductive. Games give us clearer missions and more satisfying, hands-on work.
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