When I first read the title of this video by Jane McGonigal, it was very intriguing. I wasn't sure how much McGonigal could persuade me into believing this, but it definitely caught my eye.
Starting the video, McGonigal introduced to the crowd the top 5 things that people say they wished they would have changed on their death bed. The main things that they said all lead to problems that can be solved by playing video games. I had this in mind as she introduced each one to the crowd. She shares with the crowd that she had a traumatic incident hitting her head and getting a concussion. Her concussion didn't heal properly and lead her to have a bit of a depression. She even had suicidal thoughts.
To better her situation, McGonigal developed a game that she, her husband, and identical twin could play. The focus of the game was to conquer things that could trigger her brain not to heal and also part take in things that could also make her better/ examples being taking a walk or something that made her feel good in general. By playing the game, she was able to pull herself out of that state of mind and she got better.
Basically, the game that McGonigal designed relieved them of the suffering and kind of took their minds off of what was really going on. This was called post traumatic growth. In all, by doing these validated activities that you do in the game in real life, you give yourself a natural "bettering" and this adds on to your life span.
This is my favorite from Jane McGonigal. I even took it so far as to do the activities that she told everyone to do in the video and I plan on applying these things to my everyday life for my own personal sanity.
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