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Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo.

In today's conversation, we're talking with my friend, Jane McGonagall. She's a game designer,

future forecaster, and best-selling author of Super Better, which I've just read among other books,

of course. She is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games, or games that are designed

to improve real lives and solve real problems. She writes and speaks about alternate reality games

and massive multi-player online gaming, especially about the way that collective intelligence can

be generated and used as a means for improving the quality of human life, or working towards the

solution of social ills. In 2009, she suffered a debilitating concussion that helped her in the

development of a game, Jane the concussion slayer, and she developed this to treat her concussion

in other similar conditions. The game was later renamed Super Better, hence the book.

And today, we'll discover how games teach us critical thinking, problem-solving skills,

and increase our ability to collaborate, as well as recover from traumatic experiences.

We'll also explore the ways that a game-full mindset can boost our motivation, boost our confidence,

and our ability to pick up new skills in the face of obstacles. It will examine the benefits of

something called post-traumatic growth, and how that can counterintuitively coexist in tandem

with the disadvantages of post-traumatic stress, and will identify how developing psychological

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