{"id":70876,"date":"2020-02-28T19:01:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/70876"},"modified":"2020-02-28T19:01:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T00:01:34","slug":"superbetter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/70876","title":{"rendered":"SuperBetter"},"content":{"rendered":"An innovative guide to living gamefully, based on the program that has already helped nearly half a million people achieve remarkable personal growth In 2009, internationally renowned game designer Jane McGonigal suffered a severe concussion. Unable to think clearly or work or even get out of bed, she became anxious and depressed, even suicidal. But rather than let herself sink further, she decided to get better by doing what she does best: she turned her recovery process into a resilience-building game. What started as a simple motivational exercise quickly became a set of rules for \u201cpost-traumatic growth\u201d that she shared on her blog. These rules led to a digital game and a major research study with the National Institutes of Health. Today nearly half a million people have played SuperBetter to get stronger, happier, and healthier. But the life-changing ideas behind SuperBetter are much bigger than just one game. In this book, McGonigal reveals a decade\u2019s worth of scientific research into the ways all games\u2014including videogames, sports, and puzzles\u2014change how we respond to stress, challenge, and pain. She explains how we can cultivate new powers of recovery and resilience in everyday life simply by adopting a more \u201cgameful\u201d mind-set. Being gameful means bringing the same psychological strengths we naturally display when we play games\u2014such as optimism, creativity, courage, and determination\u2014to real-world goals. Drawing on hundreds of studies, McGonigal shows that getting superbetter is as simple as tapping into the three core psychological strengths that games help you build: \u2022 Your ability to control your attention, and therefore your thoughts and feelings \u2022 Your power to turn anyone into a potential ally, and to strengthen your existing relationships \u2022 Your natural capacity to motivate yourself and super-charge your heroic qualities, like willpower, compassion, and determination SuperBetter contains nearly 100 playful challenges anyone can undertake in order to build these gameful strengths. It includes stories and data from people who have used the SuperBetter method to get stronger in the face of illness, injury, and other major setbacks, as well as to achieve goals like losing weight, running a marathon, and finding a new job. As inspiring as it is down to earth, and grounded in rigorous research, SuperBetter is a proven game plan for a better life. You\u2019ll never say that something is \u201cjust a game\u201d again. From the Hardcover edition.<p>\r\n\t       \r\n\t       GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“6M1JBgAAQBAJ”, 500,400);\r\n\t       <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An innovative guide to living gamefully, based on the program that has already helped nearly half a million people achieve remarkable personal growth In 2009, internationally renowned game designer Jane McGonigal suffered a severe concussion. Unable to think clearly or work or even get out of bed, she became anxious and depressed, even suicidal. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/70876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SuperBetter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[696,38143,19,37653,16121,37655,38145,38146,37654,35251,34389,36104,38148,38149,38150,38151,38152,38156,38153,38154,38157,38158,38159,38147,37010,38155,38161,34828,38144,37518,38160],"class_list":["post-70876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-help","tag-anxiety","tag-anxiety-and-stress","tag-anxiety-attack","tag-anxiety-books-free","tag-anxiety-disorder","tag-anxiety-games","tag-anxiety-panic-attack","tag-anxiety-panic-disorder","tag-anxiety-relief-games","tag-anxiety-treatment","tag-chronic-stress","tag-coping-with-stress","tag-cure-for-anxiety","tag-cures-for-anxiety","tag-drugs-for-anxiety","tag-help-for-anxiety","tag-herbs-for-anxiety","tag-natural-cure-for-anxiety","tag-natural-cures-for-anxiety","tag-natural-remedies-for-anxiety","tag-natural-remedy-for-anxiety","tag-natural-treatment-for-anxiety","tag-natural-treatments-for-anxiety","tag-panic-attack-treatment","tag-panic-disorder","tag-remedies-for-anxiety","tag-social-anxiety-disorder","tag-stress-anxiety","tag-symptoms-of-a-panic-attack","tag-treatment-for-anxiety-disorder","tag-treatments-for-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}