There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.

The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.

Games are such a powerful intervention in health and wellness.

When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.

My favorite part of running is the thinking time.

I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.

You need to develop mental habits that allow you to activate the same brain patterns we activate during gameplay.