How can we shift away from bullshit jobs? What is the difference between social media and gaming? How should we think about nature and nurture as we parent? What is the power of a twin relationship? I love her work and the incredible force for good it is having on the world. Jane McGonigal is a humanistic designer of alternate realities and her life goal is to see a game developer win the Nobel Peace Prize. 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. 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.
Today that game has helped over a million people tackle challenges like concussions, depression, anxiety, and chronic pain. 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. No! If you’re Jane McGonigal, what you do is design a game, in your concussion-riddled state, to help you get better. Well, if you’re Jane McGonigal that’s not what you do. Well, most of us would probably just lie there.
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