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This is Live Happy Science Editor Paula Phelps, and today on episode 171 of Live Happy Now,

we're talking about playing games and how they can make you happy, especially if you

play them at work.

We're talking to Scott Crabtree, founder of the company Happy Brain Science.

Scott is an entrepreneur who combined his love of game design with his passion

for positive psychology and blazed an entirely new trail when he created the game, Choose

Happiness at Work. Today, he's talking to us about how we can all gamify our lives to create

greater happiness at work and bring it home with us. Well, Scott, first of all, I want to welcome you to the show and

thank you for being a guest on Live Happy Now. Such a pleasure to be with you again, Paula.

Thank you. People don't know that you and I actually met at the International Positive

Psychology Association World Congress in Canada. And the reason that I was so interested in what you were doing is that you're

combining two elements that people don't usually think about together. And that's work and games.

So can you tell us a little bit about how you decided to merge those two things?

Yeah. Well, I come from a video game design and development background,

so I spent most of my career leading the design and development of mostly kids and family

educational games, but also some exercise games and console games, even an iPhone game along the way.

That career ultimately led me to Intel, And while I was at Intel, doing outreach to the video game industry from Intel, I discovered there was a real solid science of happiness. And I finished my first book on the science of happiness, Sonia Lubomerski's The How of Happiness,

and felt like I had discovered this amazing goldmine, this amazing treasure, right? As you know,

because I know you share the passion, there's solid science that can guide us to making choices

that lead to more happiness in our lives. And if we make those choices, we lead better lives.

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