SuperBetter level:???
Each quest builds primarily upon one of four stats:
Physical,
Mental,
Emotional,
Social
QUEST 1: Physical Resilience
Pick one:
Stand up and take three steps.
or
Make your hands into fists and hold them over your head as high as you can for five seconds.
GO!
QUEST 2: Mental Resilience
Pick one:
Snap your fingers exactly fifty times
or
Count backward from 100 by 7, like this: 100, 93, 86... all the way to at least 0.
GO!
QUEST 3: Emotional Resilience
Pick one:
If you're inside, find a window and look outside for thirty seconds. If you're outside, find a window and look in.
or
Do a Google image or YouTube video search for "baby [your favorite animal]."
GO!
QUEST 4: Social Resilience
Pick one:
Shake or hole someone's hand for at least six seconds.
or
Send someone you know a quick thank-you by text, email, or facebook message. GO!
So these 4 little quest cards were super cute and I LOVE a thing to track, so I was inspired to make this page. Maybe it'll be my first canvas or javascript page!
Physical resilience = withstand stress and self-heal
Mental resilience = motivation, focus & willpower
Emotional resilience = access positive emotions at will, choose to feel something good
Social Resilience = ability to get support from friends, family members, neighbors and coworkers - able to ask for the help you need- and more likely to receive it
I feel like while the social resilience one is still important, something about the way the book explains this feels very self serving. Which is exactly how loneliness tends to work though. When you're lonely the only way to fix it is with the assistance of another person and there's no real way to guarantee that you'll recieve it. It's an awful and weird paradox. HealthyGamerGG on youtube has an interesting video on this topic
Reading Notes: p.25 Mcgonigal says
When you play games with purpose, you tap into three core psychological strengths:
- Your ability to control your attention and therefore your thoughts and feelings
- Your power to turn anyone into a potential ally and to strenthen your existing relationships
- Your natural capacity to motivate yourself and supercharge your heroic qualities, like willpower, compassion, and determination
She also quotes a pew study saying that 99% of boys under 18yo & 92% of girls under 18yo report playing video games regularly. (13 hours/week average for boys, 8 for girls.) These numbers are so different from the gender inclusive book I'm reading. It's very good. Hopefully we hear more market stats but that's not really the scope so we will see.
Quest 5: Palms Up!
Turn your palms up and leave them that way. You should start to notice a more open mindset in as little as 15 seconds.
Quest 6: Stop the Pink Elephant!
cognitively challenging word games to spotlight your attention where you want it.
Quest 7: Control the Mind's Eye
Play a pattern matching game like tetris for three minutes the next time a craving kicks in!