SuperBetter - by Jane McGonigal
ISBN: 0143109774Date read: 2024-08-17
How strongly I recommend it: 5/10
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I was excited to read a book about living gamefully, so I bought it, then found out it was more about recovery - using this approach to heal from trauma. I will read it again with more interest when I have trauma.
my notes
You have the ability to control your attention - and therefore your thoughts and feelings.
This book is about learning how to be gameful in the face of extreme stress and personal challenge.
Being gameful means bringing the psychological strengths you naturally display when you play games - such as optimism, creativity, courage, and determination - to your real life.
It means having the curiosity and openness to play with different strategies to discover what works best.
When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, and more optimism.
Undertake an extreme challenge in your life - a meaningful project or mission that creates significant stress and challenge for you.
Seek out whatever makes you stronger and happier.
The number-one thing people can do to boost their physical resilience is to not sit still.
Whenever you sit still for more than a few minutes, your body starts to shut down.
Every single second you’re not sitting still, however, you’re actively improving the health of your heart, your lungs, and your brain.
You don’t need to eliminate negative emotions - that’s obviously impossible.
You just need enough positive emotions, over the course of a day, to beat out the negative ones.