Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life

http://www.ted.com When game designer Jane McGonigal found herself bedridden and suicidal following a severe concussion, she had a fascinating idea for how to get better. She dove into the scientific research and created the healing game, SuperBetter. In this moving talk, McGonigal explains how a game can boost resilience -- and promises to add 7.5 minutes to your life.

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[ManlyOBeeferton]

If you consider a miscommunication between total strangers to be an epic fail, I wonder what you would consider something like the Mars Surveryor '98 incident to be :).

[ManlyOBeeferton]

'Guns are an inanimate object.'

Whaaat!? Why didn't someone tell me?? There I was thinking that guns were sentient, could spontaneously sprout legs and were going about killing people of their own accord because murder is just in their nature..*cough*

No but seriously, if you really didn't understand the meaning - lol.

Oh and while pointing out grammatical errors is usually petty, you seem like a particularly odious individual so: guns aren't an inanimate object, guns are inanimate objects :).

[Simona Balas]

if the only thing that you noticed about her is her dressing, you are missing the point of this project...

[Scott Holtzapple]

I don't know if I would call her an intellectual, but worst dressed works

[lidarman2]

She needs a lesson in significant digits! What is this six digits of precision after the decimal for a probabilistic quantity around 200 anyway? ;)

I bet on my death bed, I'm going to regret watching a lot of youtube.videos.

[FullCircleStories]

The app for this is $5.65

[valery tozer]

well by her math, i should live 30 to 60 years longer ha.. i have ACM im 33 now , ill be dead at 47.

[Tomoeine]

Just saying, it makes no sense. XD

[Nosy Bee]

Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.

[Nosy Bee]

Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.