Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

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.

Games are such a powerful intervention in health and wellness.

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.

I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things

We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.