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Playing SuperBetter helps build personal resilience: the ability to stay strong, motivated, and optimistic even in the face of difficult challenges.
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#Battling bad guys - Strategy #5

Battling bad guys - Strategy #5

So far we’ve learned four different strategies to battle bad guys. Today we’ll cover the fifth and last strategy on the list, one that is most subtle, and perhaps the most difficult to master.
The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Strategy #5: CONVERT

Converting means finding a way to turn your bad guy into a power-up. For example, if you’re feeling pain, it could help you experience more compassion for others who are in pain. If you’re feeling angry, you could use it as a source of energy and channel it into something productive. Can you imagine any situation in which having your bad guy around would help you instead of hurting you?
Bad guy: Addiction to drama.
Convert it strategy: Be inspired by other people‘s drama to do better yourself.
I keep getting into friendships and relationships with people who bring all kinds of drama into my life. This distracts me from putting my time and energy into my own plans. Eventually, I want to bring more positive people into my life. But some people are in my life for good no matter what. They are family. I can’t change them, but I can get inspired by them to do better and be better. They are inspiration to develop my own drama-free qualities, like patience and forgiveness.” – Therese, 36.
Converting a bad guy into a power-up isn’t always easy, but it’s worth the extra effort. It’s the most profound stretch you can make in your psychological flexibility.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Meet the Super Villains

Meet the Super Villains

SuperBetter players have spotted and battled nearly a million bad guys. Today, and over the next three days we’re going to find the four bad guys that have been most frequently spotted by players, sorted by resilience type. These are the biggest, baddest bad guys – the Super Villains.

SUPER VILLAIN #1: THE ENEMY of PHYSICAL RESILIENCE

The Sticky Chair.
This bad guy can be spotted in the disguise of the Sticky Couch or the Sticky Bed. It cons us into sitting or lying down and being sedentary all day.
If you spot this super villain, try out this battle strategy right now!
The Sticky Chair Strategy:
Battle this bad guy by getting up for a count of five. When you get to five, say out loud or think to yourself, “I am free!” When you’re finished counting to five, you can sit or lie down again if you really want to. But once you’ve escaped the sticky chair’s clutches, you may find that you want to state unstuck a while longer. Do a push-up or ten!
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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SUPER VILLAIN #3: THE ENEMY of MENTAL RESILIENCE

SUPER VILLAIN #3: THE ENEMY of MENTAL RESILIENCE
The Too-Headed Monster. You know you’re in the clutches of this bad guy when you find yourself making an “I am too…” statement.
This kind of statement is usually an excuse to talk yourself out of doing something you really want or need to do to get SuperBetter.
If you spot this super villain, try out this battle strategy right now!
The Too-Headed Monster Strategy: Whatever your excuse – as an experiment, just for today, get rid of the “too” and do it anyway!
When you do battle using this strategy, you’ll figure out that you don’t have to change how you feel or what you think about yourself to do something good that makes you stronger, better, happier, or healthier. So don’t let your “too-headed monster” stop you. Acknowledge it, then be courageous and do what's best for you anyway!
- Adapted from *SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Confronting bad guys

Confronting bad guys

A real life bad guy is anything that tries to stop you from doing what you want or need to do to get superbetter. Spotting a bad guy means identifying it as a potential source of trouble or distress. Battling a bad guy means experimenting with different strategies for dealing with it effectively. Succeeding in battle means not letting it stop you from having a good day or making progress toward your goals.
Every time you battle a bad guy, you increase your awareness of what’s really standing in your way, and you broaden your repertoire of potential strategies. These are the two key components of psychological flexibility: increased awareness of the difficult stuff and a willingness to experiment with different responses to it.
Psychological flexibility is the courage to face things that are hard for us. Developing this courage is a two-part process:
  1. Get better at spotting the bad guys: You must increase your awareness, or mindfulness of anything that might block your progress or cause you pain, difficulty, or distress. Being mindful means paying close attention to negative thoughts, feelings, and experiences. You don’t try to deny, avoid, or suppress them. Paying attention to the negative helps you deal with it more effectively. After all, you cancel the problem or change your behavior if you pretend it doesn’t exist.
  2. Bet better at battling the bad guys: Once you are fully aware of your bad guys, you can work toward developing multiple strategies for dealing with them. This is called having a flexible response. Instead of relying on a single dominant strategy, you develop many ways to respond effectively. You vary your response based on which bad guy you’re facing, what resources you have available at the moment, and whatever else might be compromising your motivation, physical ability, or attention.
Having multiple strategies makes you much more resilient to setbacks. When a bad guy takes you by surprise, or when multiple bad guys gang up on you at the same time, you will be much more agile and flexible in your response. If one strategy doesn’t work, you simply pay attention, change your strategy, and keep making progress!
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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#Mission Complete

Mission Complete

Skills Unlocked: Rule 2 of Being Gameful - How To Power-up Anytime, Anywhere
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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SUPER VILLAIN #2

SUPER VILLAIN #2: THE ENEMY of SOCIAL RESILIENCE
Solitary Confinement (AKA Baron Isolation). This bad guy freezes you in its icy shell and prevents you from having any meaningful human contact for an entire day. It’s a trickier foe than you think! You can find yourself in solitary confinement even if you are constantly surrounded by other people! – if you’re stuck in your head, distracting yourself with digital devices, or keeping all your thoughts and feelings to yourself.
If you spot this super villain, try out these battle strategies right now. NOTE: Please adapt these to whatever COVID-19 measures are in place locally.
The Solitary Confinement Strategy: To battle this bad guy, blast through the isolation with a warm ray of human contact: send someone a “thinking of you” message, start a conversation, give a stranger a smile, pick up the phone and tell someone what you’re feeling, give someone a high-five or a hug. Or leave your digital devices at home and just go somewhere you can be around other people without distraction.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Real-life Bad Guys

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Real-life bad guys

A real-life bad guy is anything that tries to stop you from doing what you want or need to do to get superbetter. Spotting a bad guy means identifying it as a potential source of trouble or distress. Battling a bad guy means experimenting with different strategies for dealing with it effectively. Succeeding in Battle means not letting it stop you from having a good day or making progress toward your goals.
There are all kinds of bad guys: mental, emotional, physical, and social. They can be:
Give your bad guys names that are worthy of a truly legendary foe! These names can help you spot and battle the bad guys more effectively. When you give bad guys their own distinct name and identities, it helps separate them from you. It’s no longer all the dark stuff you’re carrying around and can’t drop. Let’s take a look at some bad guys:
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Use Those Power-ups!

Use Those Power-ups!

Now that you’ve collected a few power-ups, here’s how to make the most of them.
Try to activate at least three power-ups every day. If it helps, think of it as one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. (If you want to activate more than three a day, by all means, go for it! power-up every single hour, if you need the boost.)
Keep Collecting The more power-ups you know how to activate, the stronger you’ll get. Collecting power-ups is a mental habit, a way of seeing the world around you. To start developing that mental habit, challenge yourself to find one new power-up every day for the next week, and you'll have a total of one dozen at your disposal.
Trade Most SuperBetter players say their favorite power-ups are ones suggested to them by a friend or family member. The easiest way to collect them is to ask this simple question: “What’s something you can easily do in five minutes or less that makes you feel happier, healthier, or stronger?” Ask it of as many people as you can. If you are not restricting your use of social media, you can use it to trade and collect even more power-ups.
Always Experiment Part of the fun of collecting power-ups is discovering new tricks and finding surprising sources of strength. Don’t be shy to try a new power-up. You never know what might work for you. If it doesn’t make you feel better, no problem – you never have to try it again!
Retire Power-ups If They’re Not Working For You A power-up may not work forever. Pay attention and make sure you’re getting the biggest boost possible. If the boost is less than it used to be, you may need to refresh your power song, your mantra, your energy food, or your “always makes me smile” photo with a new one.
Boost All Four Types Of Resilience Make it a point to collect and activate power-ups that help you build up mental, physical, emotional, and social resilience. Most people have a blind spot in their daily lives – a type of resilience they are less likely to develop. Figure out what yours is, and make a conscious effort to collect and activate power-ups for that type.
Power Sharing Finally, keep in mind that powering up isn’t something you do just to improve yourself. You can share the power with others!
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Quest 21

Quest 21

Aside from physical exercise, Social Reflection is the only power-up proven in studies to boost the vagal tone and positive emotion ratio of people who are suffering from extreme stress, burn out, trauma, or depression – people with a positive emotion ratio of less than 1:1.
Let's learn about this power-up right now, with a quest inspired by research scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Quest 21: Try the Social Reflection Power-up

Social reflection is the king of power-ups. It’s the one that can boost your resilience no matter how troubled, hopeless, or uninspired you feel.

What To Do

Shortly before you go to sleep, think about the three social interactions in which you spent the most time today. They might be in person, on the phone, on video chat, or even just an extended conversation by email or text message. They could be interactions with individuals or with a larger group - such as participating in a discussion group, a work team, or a family gathering.
If you spent most of your time alone today, you might think of more fleeting interactions, such as with a cashier at the grocery store or someone you made small talk with. Depending on how you spend your day, they might even be three different interactions with the same person (this often happens when you’re working or studying from home, and the only person you speak to or see all day is a family member, partner, or roommate.)
OK, have you got your three social interactions in mind? Now think of them all together and ask yourself how much you agree with the following statements:
  1. During all of these three social interactions, I felt close to the other person or people.
  2. During these social interactions, I felt “in tune” with the other person or people.
Rate your agreement on a scale of 0 to 10, with zero representing “I completely disagree with the statement” and 10 representing “I agree completely.” You should have two numbers after completing this power-up, a number between zero and 10 for each of the two statements.

Why It Works

Scientists theorize that reflecting on your social interactions helps in several ways:

How To Use It

The power of this simple technique comes from repetition. You will need to activate this power-up each night for at least three days before the benefits start to kick in. The biggest impact will occur if you keep up the habit for a month or longer. That’s a lot to ask – but for now make a commitment to try it for three days in a row.
To make sure you don’t forget, right now set an end-of-day calendar appointment on your phone or email, or put a power-up sticky-note reminder on your toothbrush or your bedside so you will be sure to see it each night. After all, there’s no point in collecting a power-up if you forget to activate it!
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Bad Guys

Bad Guys

“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"” ~ T.S. Eliot

How to Be Gameful Rule 3: How to find and battle the bad guys – anything that blocks your progress or causes you anxiety, pain, or distress.

We all know how bad guys work in video games – they’re the obstacles that force us to be creative and clever, like the relentless chocolate fountains that block our moves in Candy Crush Saga. They require us to try harder and jump higher, like the ubiquitous turtles we have to avoid in Super Mario Bros. The really tough bad guys might prompt us to call in a friend for advice or a little back up. (Which first-time Minecraft player hasn't needed some help in figuring out how to avoid those pesky creepers?) Many non-digital games have bad guys too, even if we don’t call them that: the sand traps in golf, for example, or defenders in basketball, or the J in scrabble.
Bad guys in everyday life work just the same way – they make things tougher on us. But in making it harder for us to achieve our goals, bad guys also help us develop skills and strategies that ultimately make us smarter, stronger, and faster – so we can achieve bigger goals in the future.
That’s why we battle bad guys: to get better.
In order to become happier or healthier, we need what’s called psychological flexibility: the courage to face things that are hard for us. We must be open to failure and negative experience – not just in games but in everyday life. We must know went to retreat and regroup, until we feel ready to try again. Living gamefully helps you develop this flexibility. SuperBetter players have battled more than one million real-life bad guys. And according to the data, SuperBetter players feel better – stronger, happier, more confident, and more optimistic – after reporting a battle, whether they win or lose.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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How To Power Up

How To Power Up

Collecting power-ups can be as challenging in real life as they are in video games. They are hiding in plain sight, though, so here’s another list of power-ups to get you started. We can even set up little reminders here and there – stickies that say “POWER-UP”, and then a brief description of the power-up. You can even put points on it, as well as what kind of power-up (Physical Resilience, Mental Resilience, Emotional Resilience, Social Resilience) it is.
What kind of Power-ups are you doing?

PHYSICAL POWER-UPS

Sunshine on your shoulders: Go outside and let the sun touch your skin for at least five minutes.
Dance break: Stop whatever you’re doing and dance to a favorite song.
Make new gut friends: Eat yogurt or a probiotic pill to strengthen the ecosystem in your gut. The friendly bacteria in yogurt and probiotics supplements communicate directly to your brain through your vagus nerve, sending signals to your brain to secrete anxiety-reducing and mood-boosting neurotransmitters. The higher your vagal tone, the better this power-up works.

MENTAL POWER-UPS

Brand new day: If you are having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, get back into bed, pull the covers up, and close your eyes for one minute – then roll out of bed as if you’ve just woken up for the first time.
Stop, challenge, choose: This is a willpower booster. Stop before eating, and challenge your choice – is there any one thing you could do to make this meal or snack a tiny bit healthier? Now choose to make one small positive difference based on your health or weight loss goals.
Digital detox: Power down and walk away from anything with a screen – your phone, tablet, computer, the TV. Don’t turn it back on or pick it up for 10 whole minutes. See who or what captures your attention in the physical world. (No, you can’t cheat and use your phone to check the time! Find a clock!)

EMOTIONAL POWER-UPS

Hug yourself: give yourself a hug or a pat on the arm or back, while telling your body what a great job it’s doing – just the way it is.
Find your voice: Read one of your favorite poems, stories, or quotations out loud.
A mighty act of self-care: Attend to one simple and easy task that helps you take care of yourself. Brush your teeth or your hair, put away one piece of laundry, stretch for one minute, or get dressed in something you really like.

SOCIAL POWER-UPS

Cheer them on: Pick one person and send them words of encouragement or support about something they’re doing or going through today.
Matching: Any time you activate compassion and express care for another human by noticing a commonality between the two of you – you power up! It could be as simple as noticing you’re both wearing the same color socks!
Listen to a “friends-and-family” playlist: Send an email, or write a social media post, asking all your friends and family to pick one song for you to add to a music playlist. Pick a theme or occasion for the playlist, like a holiday, or “survive my commute,“ or working out, or just “calm my nerves.” Whenever you listen to the playlist, you’ll know that it’s made up of music hand-picked just for you.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Quest 20

Quest 20: Collect Five Personalized Power-Ups

Every power-up you collect is a resource you can use to change how you feel, when you need it most. So let’s build those resources – and increase our control – right now, with a Quest.
The world around you is full of power-ups. All you have to do is spot them.

What To Do

Collect your first five power-ups. Remember, anything that makes you feel happier, stronger, healthier, or better connected counts is a power-up.
You can collect any of the power-ups we’ve already learned about in this Round. Or, if you’d like to personalize your list, here are some brainstorming questions to help you out:

My power-up list:

Quest Complete

Congratulations! You’ve collected five personal power-ups. Eventually you may build up a supercollection of 100 or more! The bigger your power-up collection, the more control you have every single day to feel better – no matter what stress, pain, or adversity you’re facing.

Challenge:

Activate one of your five power-ups right now, before you do anything else!
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Mission: Learn How To Power Up Anytime, Anywhere

Mission: Learn How To Power Up Anytime, Anywhere

*How to Be Gameful Rule 2: *The Second Rule of being gameful is to collect and activate power-ups – good things that reliably make you feel happier, healthier, or stronger. **

Power-ups

It’s time for a new Mission! Power-ups are essential to most video games. They are the bonus items that give you more strength, more power, or extra life. Think of the care packages in Call of Duty that restore your soldier’s health, or the super seeds in Angry Birds that supersize the birds in your slingshot, making them capable of knocking down bigger, stronger walls.
We can collect power-ups in real life, and the good news is that it’s easier than you think!
Here are some real-world power-ups:
What do all these power-ups have in common? You can do them easily, at no cost, and it will make you feel at least a little bit better, no matter what else you’re thinking or feeling or battling that moment.
Power-ups are one of the most powerful weapons in the arsenal of someone who is living gamefully. It’s the ability to feel better, anytime, anyplace, no matter what.
Just as you would use a power-up in a video game to get through a particularly difficult level, or to accomplish a seemingly impossible task, you can use real-world power-ups to give you a boost during difficult times.
Over the course of this mission we will be experimenting with and collecting the power ups that work for you.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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#Vagus Nerve, RSA, and Power-ups

Vagus Nerve, RSA, and Power-ups

Vagal tone refers to the health of your Vagus nerve, which stretches all the way from your brain to your intestines. The Vagus nerve touches your heart, lungs, voicebox, ears, and stomach, helping to regulate virtually every important function in your mind and body, from your emotions to your heart rate to your breathing rate to your muscle movement to your digestion.
Once you’ve chosen a challenge, collecting and activating power-ups is the most important part of daily gameful living. That’s because in order to rebound from stress and tackle major life obstacles successfully, you need what scientists call high vagal tone. And power-ups are the best way to get it.
Because the Vagus nerve is so essential to so many biological and psychological functions, it’s health is an excellent measure of your mind-and-body resilience. Nearly 25 years of research has consistently shown that the tone (the strength) of the Vagus nerve is the single best measure of how effectively a person’s heart, lungs, and brain respond to stress.

Training the Vagus Nerve

Place your fingers on the pulse point on the side of your neck. Feel your pulse for a few seconds to get a sense of its speed. Now start to breathe in and out as slowly as you can.
You may notice that your pulse quickens when you inhale and slows when you exhale. Take a minute now to feel this. It’s a little easier to notice if you mentally count each beat of the heart.
This subtle difference in your pulse rate when you inhale and exhale is what scientists call respiratory sinus arrhythmia, or RSA for short. Arrhythmia literally means “without a steady beat”; most people associate the term with potentially dangerous heart conditions in which the heartbeat changes erratically. However, a variable heart rate — within certain bounds — is absolutely healthy, normal, and necessary. If your heart rate didn’t increase during inhalation and decrease during exhalation, you would be at higher risk for heart attack, stroke, aging-related cognitive decline, and stress-induced illness. In fact, the more pronounced the difference between your inhalation and exhalation heart rates, the better.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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What are Power-ups?

What are Power-ups?

A power-up is any positive action you can take, easily, that creates a quick moment of strength, courage, pleasure, or connection for you.
The concept is simple enough: do little things that will give you a burst of energy, a positive emotion, social support, or motivation. But power-ups are about more than just feeling better in the moment. They also change your biology in extraordinarily important and long-term ways, helping you become far less vulnerable to stress and much more likely to experience post-traumatic or post-ecstatic growth. In the days ahead, we will learn all about the biology of positive change.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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All-time Favorite Power-ups

All-time Favorite Power-ups

PHYSICAL RESILIENCE
Drink a glass of water! There is almost nothing it doesn’t help, from improving mood to building muscle to controlling appetite to increasing energy to boosting the immune system.
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE
Sing your lungs out! Pick a favorite song you know most of the lyrics to, and sing it at the top of your lungs. “At the top of your lungs” is the crucial part – it turns singing into an aerobic activity, which can trigger a release of endorphins - the happy hormones! So don’t hold back – you’ve got to really belt it out to get these benefits!
SOCIAL RESILIENCE
Love spree! Check the clock or start a timer. You’ve got three minutes to like, favorite, or leave a positive comment on as many social media posts from friends and family as you can. If you are not on social media, use your three minutes to send quick “you are awesome” or “thinking of you” emails and text messages to as many people as you can. You’ve only got three minutes, so don’t think – just spread the love!
MENTAL RESILIENCE
Future boost! Name two specific things you’re looking forward to in the next week, big or small. This dopamine-boosting power-up is inspired by the ancient wisdom “Always have two things to look forward to.” If you can’t think of two things in the next seven days that you’re genuinely looking forward to, now is the time to schedule them.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Why Power-Up?

Why Power-Up?

So why are power-ups such an important tool for increasing your positive emotion ratio and strengthening your vagal tone? Interestingly, trying to directly decrease the number of negative emotions you feel provides virtually no benefit. People with high vagal tone experience just as many negative emotions daily as people with low vagal tone – in fact they may feel even more. The difference between high and low vagal tone is in the number of positive emotions you can pile up to balance out and offset the negative emotions. This is good news, because it’s much easier to find little ways to feel happy and connected than it is to block or prevent negative emotions entirely.
The research also shows that when it comes to positive emotion, frequency is more important than intensity. Little positive things matter and pile up. You don’t have to make major improvements in your life or experience huge bursts of powerful, all–consuming positive emotion to increase your resilience. Instead, the most effective strategy is to collect as many microbursts of positive emotion as you can throughout the day.
“When I was recovering from my concussion, power-ups gave me control, even on the darkest days, to do something, anything, to help me get stronger. When I look back at that difficult time, I credit using power-ups as the most important and effective strategy I took to break free of the cycle of anxiety and depression.” ~ J. McGonigal
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Quest 18

Quest 18: Choose Your Challenge

We began this Mission for a reason: to master the First Rule of Living Gamefully. We have one final Quest to complete before we wind down the Mission for this part of the series.
Now that you’ve learned Rule #1 for living gamefullyChallenge Yourself! and purposefully engage with potentially life transforming obstacles – it’s time to choose your first SuperBetter challenge.
It is best to focus on just one challenge at a time. If you could be stronger, happier, healthier, or more courageous in one specific way, what would it be?
I am getting SuperBetter at:
Tip: This phrasing is important! You’re going to get SuperBetter at something, not SuperBetter from something. Post it here, and write it down where you can see it every day! If you typically go numb to stickers or posters over time, then move it around. You can also put a reminder on your phone. You can set it up as a Daily Powerup in the SuperBetter app or website (https://superbetter.com).
Good luck!
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Quest 19: What’s Your Number

Quest 19: What’s Your Number

If you were a participant in a formal scientific study, researchers would measure your Vagal tone using sophisticated laboratory equipment: echocardiogram (ECG) electrodes which track your heart rate, while “pneumatic bellows” strapped around your chest would measure the rise and fall of your breath. This would produce a very precise RSA number that could be deemed high, low, or average.
Assuming you don’t have this equipment lying around at home, you’re not going to get an accurate RSA number just by taking your own pulse. We’re going to use a measure known as Emotional Ratio, a technique that scientific studies have shown to predict vagal tone quite effectively. The higher the ratio between positive and negative emotions you feel daily, the stronger your vagal tone.
To calculate your positive emotion ratio, let’s do a quick count of all the emotions you felt since you woke up today. (If you just woke up, think about yesterday instead!)

What to do

Take a look at the following list of emotional experiences. If you’ve felt this emotion today, put a checkmark by it.
If you felt it really strongly, or for a very long time instead of a fleeting moment, feel free to put two, three, four, or even five checkmarks by it. For example, if you finished a big project this morning and felt extremely proud about it, you might decide that just one checkmark by “pride” isn’t enough to represent how you feel – maybe it’s worth two or three. Or if you spent most of the morning really angry about a serious injustice you personally experienced, it might be worth five checkmarks by anger. If the feeling was mild or fleeting, one checkmark is fine.

POSITIVE EMOTIONS  
Amusement, laughter Excitement, energy
Pride, accomplishment Connection, being part of something bigger than myself
Love for someone else Interest, curiosity
Joy, bliss Hope, optimism
Pleasure, contentment, satisfaction Inspiration, motivation
Peacefulness, serenity Surprise (positive)
Awe, wonder Looking forward to something
Gratitude, thankfulness Savoring a pleasant memory

NEGATIVE EMOTIONS  
Anger Boredom
Depression Disgust
Embarrassment Fear
Guilt Frustration
Hatred for someone else Hopelessness
Sadness Shame
Dissatisfaction Loneliness
Dread or anxiety about something in the future Rehashing a negative experience

Scoring

Count up all the checkmarks by a positive emotion (PE). This is your PE total. Then count up all the checkmarks by a negative emotion (NE). This is your NE total. Now divide your PE by your NE. This is your Positive Emotion ratio. For example, if you have six checkmarks by positive emotions and four checkmarks by negative emotions, your ratio would be 6/4, or 1.5.
Tip: If you find you have a hard time remembering how you felt over the past 24 hours, keep a log of your activity for the next 24 hours. Write down everywhere you go, what you do, and who you talk to. At the end of the day, go back through the list and use it to help you recall any emotions you might have felt. This option requires more work but it has the benefit of being more accurate.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Mission Accomplished!

Mission Accomplished

Skills unlocked: How to Choose Your Challenge
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Becoming Gameful

Becoming Gameful

Are you willing to fight for a life truer to your dreams and free of regret?
We've explored why games can make us so good at tackling tough challenges. Let's learn how to apply these gameful skills to everyday life
We all already have the power within ourselves to think and live gamefully – and to become stronger, happier, and braver as a result. It’s just a matter of putting that power into concrete actions, within a gameful structure.
SuperBetter gives us that structure, in seven simple rules to play by whenever we want to tackle a challenge or make a positive change in our lives. Those seven rules will make it easier for us to draw on our natural gameful strengths:
The Four Strengths
The Seven Rules
  1. Challenge Yourself
  2. Power-Ups
  3. Bad Guys
  4. Quests
  5. Allies
  6. Secret Identity
  7. Epic wins!
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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Rule 1: Challenge Yourself

Challenge Yourself

The First Rule of being gameful is to challenge yourself. There are thousands of ways to get happier, healthier, stronger, and braver.
Game Tip: Interesting fact about games - we almost never feel hopeless when we play them.
Psychologists have studied the top emotions during gameplay, and genuine anxiety and pessimism are extremely rare. Even when we’re losing or struggling, we’re vastly more likely to feel determined and optimistic instead of panicked or powerless.1
Why? Because when we play a game we focus on goals and growth. We seek out challenges voluntarily, and we savor the difficulty. We play not to avoid losing but to find out what we are capable of. And we believe that victories, even against great odds, are possible. You can bring this gameful mindset to your real life obstacles. You can feel the same optimism, courage, and curiosity in everyday life – even where the stakes are higher and failure has significantly more consequences. It’s called adopting a challenge versus threat mindset.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
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