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#101 Jane McGonigal: The Psychology of Gaming

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How Can I Take a Pattern Recognizing Machine?

A lot of people, they can't do any of that work because their brain says, um, never experienced that before. So if you want people to take seriously things that sound unthinkable or unimaginable, just getting them to just tell a story, even if you think it could never happen. Just, you know, start imagining it. Tell that story. The next time they think about it, they feel like it could be more real. And i'll tell you, i've been doing pandemic forecasts for, you know, two of my biggest games, forecast big respiratory pandemics that start in china for the year two thousand nineteen and two thousand twenty. I have heard from players

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