Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
In this talk, Jane McGonigal says we need to increase our gaming hours per week to 21 billion hours per week. We need to do this because she says that in games we become the best version of us, getting up after failures, sticking to a problem for as long as it takes, and helping at a moments notice. She also says brings up the point that to become a master at something you must spend 10,000 hours doing something intensely. From 5th grade to high school graduation, we spend 10,080 hours in class if you have perfect attendance. On average we spend 10,000 hours playing video games from birth to the age of 21. So this generation is learning as much about games as we are everything else. The four things Jane says that we are becoming masters of are as follows: 1 urgent optimism: we are ready to save the world and believe we can at a moments notice. 2 Tight social fabric: we develop relationships a lot better after playing a game. 3 Blissful productivity: we are much happier working hard in game then we are relaxing, because we feel optimized. 4 Epic meaning: we believe that we can save the world and will. I really enjoy this discussion, because instead of hating on gamers like a lot of people do saying that all gamers are lazy etc. Jane believes gamers can save the real world just as we do so many times in virtual worlds. She talks about games that her team developed that really solidify her point. Gamers made better economies, learned how to live without oil and, many other problems were solved through games. This is a great discussion in support of video games and I love it.
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