Gaming can make a better world, Lesson3

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Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world, Lesson3
Summary
Games give us four superpowers which said urgent optimism, weaving a tight social fabric, blissful productivity, and epic meaning. It makes us virtuosos at games.
Urgent optimism is the desire of thinking a reasonable hope of success.
Weaving a tight social fabric requires lot of connections of bonds, trust and cooperation which are built up by playing a game together.
Blissful productivity means to be able to feel better to work hard and raise productivity, if people are given the right work.
Epic meaning is having an epic knowledge and stories, even though it's games.
Those feelings give gamers a perfect sense to spend more time in the virtual world than the real world.
Can people succeed more if the real world is more similar to the game world ?
◆Viewpoints&Discussion
1. What do you consider as the most important virtue in both gaming world and the real world? Urgent optimism, weaving a tight social fabric, blissful productivity, and epic meaning?
The most important virtue I consider is blissful productivity. It is important to feel better while working hard and raise productivity.
It will make people happy to work more.
2. Do you think gamers who are virtuosos at these 4 superpowers can succeed in the real world?
No, I don't think so. I think that they have just escaped to the game world. They can't succeed in the real world, therefore they will play games.
3. Do you think that the game world is better than the real world? Why or why not?
No, I don't think so. I think that the real world is better than the game world, even if the real world is hard or tight. It is because in the real world, the main character is yourself. In the game world, fighting a hero is not yourself. A hero is only controlled by you in the game world.