Summary Of Reality Is Broken By Jane Mcgonigal

Live is a big game, which requires us to engage and cooperate together to harness our ability as one united cyber society to play its quests. Jane Mcgonigal, a digital game designer and Director of Game Research at the Institute For The Future, inspires us by her book Reality is Broken. She argues the capabilities of games to change our reality for butter and fill our lives with positive emotions, positive activity, positive experiences, and positive strengths.
Part one: Why games make us happy? ”One way or another, if human evolution is to go on, we shall have to learn to enjoy life more thoroughly”.

In this part Jane starts with introduce a clear definition of the terms “games” and “play”, and then the four defining traits of each game, goal, rules,
The second fix is,” Emotional activation” in this fix she describes the capability of games to fill us with the intrinsic rewards and positive energy, provoke our positive emotions, strengths, and social connections. She discusses the different between the intrinsic and the extrinsic reward, and how intrinsic rewards make us feel more satisfying than the extrinsic rewords. It provides us a satisfying work, experience of being successful, social connection, and the meaning or the chance to be part of something larger than ourselves. Thus, the third fix is “More satisfying work”, having a clear goal is one of the characteristics that makes the satisfying work more desirable, then the next step of the work must be actionable to ensure our progress toward the goal. This state of blissful productivity makes failure more fun and fills us with positive energy, which match Fix#4:”Better hope of success”. It is also help us to focus on our time and energy and achieve our goals. On the