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b'Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games \\u2014 or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems.\\n She is the Author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World and is the inventor and co-founder of SuperBetter, a game that has helped nearly a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.\\n Our conversation is about how to design useful games, how games effect us and our kids, and what the future might hold. Please enjoy.\\n For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.\\n Sign up for the book club, where you\\u2019ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub.\\n Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag\\n \\xa0\\n Show Notes\\n 1:22 - (First Question) \\u2013 Her take on the history of gaming and studying the players themselves\\n 3:44 \\u2013 Where her passion for gaming really started\\n 4:55 \\u2013 Her take on flow states\\n 7:47 \\u2013 Kids and gaming\\n 10:32 \\u2013 Advice for parents when it comes to the role of games\\n \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 11:06 \\u2013 SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient--Powered by the Science of Games\\n 13:53 \\u2013 Types of games that develop the right skills for kids\\n 16:20 \\u2013 Four things all games share in common\\n \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 16:23 \\u2013 Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\n 20:50 \\u2013 Her take on Carse\\u2019s theory about infinite gaming\\n \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 21:04 \\u2013 Finite and Infinite Games\\n 26:28 \\u2013 How to understand gaming culture if you\\u2019ve never played a game before\\n 28:28 \\u2013 Amazon and gaming\\n 31:18 \\u2013 How fun makes anything more enjoyable\\n 34:55 \\u2013 How game designers calibrate feedback loops\\n 39:14 \\u2013 The good and bad of gamifying life\\n 45:01 \\u2013 What is the superbetter app\\n 52:43 - Why powerups and bad guys are so important in games\\n 57:03 \\u2013 Secret identity\\n 59:04 \\u2013 Playing with boundaries\\n 1:00:36 \\u2013 Most worried about in the gaming world, and most exited about\\n 1:07:32 \\u2013 Kindest thing anyone has done for Jane\\n \\xa0\\n Learn More\\n For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.\\xa0\\n Sign up for the book club, where you\\u2019ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub\\n Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag'