Book Titles

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.

To participate wholeheartedly in something means to be self-motivated and self-directed, intensely interested and genuinely enthusiastic.

Today’s ‘born-digital’ kids – the first Generation to grow up with the Internet, born 1990 and later – crave gameplay in a way that older Generationss don’t.

By identifying your strengths and interests publicly, you increase the chances that you’ll be called on to do work that you’re good at.

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.

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.

Any project or challenging hobby that we’re working on that we want to see through to completion would benefit from more gamelike feedback and ambient support.

Community games have important benefits to our real lives. They may lead us to new interests – public spaces or public instructions we discover we care about more than we’d thought…

…even playing a very short game together, we are reminded of how much we share with even the strangest of strangers.

Thinking about death is one of the most highly recommended happiness activities, but it’s also one of the most difficult to convince ourselves to undertake.