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I wish I had lived a life true to my dreams, instead of what others expected of me.

I wish I’d had the courage to express my true self.

I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

Well, hospice workers have released a report on the most frequently expressed regrets on actual deathbeds. “On our deathbeds, will we regret the time we spent playing games?” She’s been thinking about that idea a lot. Imagine getting to the end of your life and regretting all that time.” Because of that, the number-one comment she’s received is, “On your deathbed are you really going to wish you’d spent more time playing Angry Birds?” Or recently a cab driver, on finding out that she was a game designer, said, “I hate games, a waste of life. In her first TEDTalk, she did suggest that we should spend 21 billion hours a week playing games. The audience could reasonably expect that she’ll want us to spend it playing games. (To back that up, she has math! Well, science, that she explains as she goes through.

For this talk, her goal is to increase the lifespan of everyone in the audience by 7.5 minutes. Our secret mission: How will we spend these bonus minutes? ow.Jane McGonigal is a gamer, so she likes to have goals and special missions. Games help you tap them, but once you know what's really under the hood, you can find ways to integrate them into whatever your passion area is.

And those principles don't have to be exclusive to game design. We all have that ability, don't we? If you read the piece, you'll learn about the principles that made her concept work. And I find it remarkable that in that place, she was able to take what she was good at to help herself. What attracted me to this story is the fact that she understood the choice she had-basically, find a way to get better or say fudge it and die. What I find most remarkable about McGonigal's story isn't her ability to use the science of games to produce something incredibly helpful, although that's fantastic. What would you do if a concussion sucked the joy out of your life? In my latest piece for Strixus, I share what game designer Jane McGonigal did when it happened to her.