The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.

When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.

When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.

I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Success is a creative journey with meaning and purpose.

Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.

In order to be a successful Photographer, you must possess both Vision and Focus neither of which have anything to do with your eyes

I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.