If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.