Displaying 2 items of Play Saves the World with the tag "happiness".
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Episode 49: Book Club: 4,000 Weeks
February 25th, 2024 | 1 hr 2 mins
book club, happiness, mortality
Oliver Burkeman's 4,000 Weeks argues that human flourishing is rooted in our relationship to time. True happiness is found not in completing tasks but living with incompletion, a sense of our mortality, and a healthy place for obsessions, hobbies, and … play.
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Episode 15: How Reality Is Broken and We Need More Games
October 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 9 mins
book club, game break, game theory, happiness, neuropsychology
What does Jane McGonigal's Reality Is Broken say about games and human happiness? Defining a game and its sense of flow is key to understanding what creates human happiness.