The game that can give you 10 extra years of life | Jane McGonigal

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I'm a gamer, so I like to have goals.
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I like special missions and secret objectives.
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So here's my special mission for this talk:
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I'm going to try to increase the life span of every single person in this room
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by seven and a half minutes.
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Literally, you will live seven and a half minutes longer
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than you would have otherwise,
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just because you watched this talk.
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Some of you are looking a little bit skeptical.
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That's okay, because check it out --
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I have math to prove that it is possible.
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It won't make much sense now.
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I'll explain it all later,
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just pay attention to the number at the bottom:
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+7.68245837 minutes.
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That will be my gift to you if I'm successful in my mission.
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Now, you have a secret mission too.
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Your mission is to figure out how you want to spend
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your extra seven and a half minutes.
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And I think you should do something unusual with them,
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because these are bonus minutes.
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You weren't going to have them anyway.
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Now, because I'm a game designer, you might be thinking to yourself,
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I know what she wants us to do with those minutes,
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she wants us to spend them playing games.
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Now this is a totally reasonable assumption,
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given that I have made quite a habit of encouraging people
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to spend more time playing games.
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For example, in my first TED Talk,
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I did propose that we should spend 21 billion hours a week,
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as a planet, playing video games.
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Now, 21 billion hours, it's a lot of time.
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It's so much time, in fact, that the number one unsolicited comment
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that I have heard from people all over the world
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since I gave that talk, is this:
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Jane, games are great and all, but on your deathbed,
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are you really going to wish you spent more time playing Angry Birds?
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(Laughter)
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This idea is so pervasive --
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that games are a waste of time that we will come to regret --
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that I hear it literally everywhere I go.
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For example, true story:
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Just a few weeks ago,
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this cab driver, upon finding out that a friend and I were in town
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for a game developers' conference,
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turned around and said -- and I quote --
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"I hate games. Waste of life.
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Imagine getting to the end of your life and regretting all that time."
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Now, I want to take this problem seriously.
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I want games to be a force for good in the world.
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I don't want gamers to regret the time they spent playing,
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time that I encouraged them to spend.
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So I have been thinking about this question a lot lately.
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When we're on our deathbeds,
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will we regret the time we spent playing games?
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Now, this may surprise you, but it turns out
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there is actually some scientific research on this question.
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It's true.
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Hospice workers,
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the people who take care of us at the end of our lives,
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recently issued a report on the most frequently expressed regrets
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that people say when they are literally on their deathbeds.
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And that's what I want to share with you today --
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the top five regrets of the dying.
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Number one:
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I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
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Number two:
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I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
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Number three:
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I wish I had let myself be happier.
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Number four:
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I wish I'd had the courage to express my true self.
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And number five:
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I wish I'd lived a life true to my dreams,
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instead of what others expected of me.
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Now, as far as I know, no one ever told one of the hospice workers,
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"I wish I'd spent more time playing video games,"
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but when I hear these top five regrets of the dying,
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I can't help but hear five deep human cravings
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that games actually help us fulfill.
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For example, I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
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For many people, this means, I wish I'd spent more time
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with my family, with my kids when they were growing up.
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Well, we know that playing games together has tremendous family benefits.
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A recent study from Brigham Young University School of Family Life
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reported that parents who spend more time playing video games with their kids
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have much stronger real-life relationships with them.
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"I wish I'd stayed in touch with my friends."
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Hundreds of millions of people
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use social games like FarmVille or Words With Friends
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to stay in daily contact with real-life friends and family.
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A recent study from the University of Michigan
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showed that these games are incredibly powerful relationship-management tools.
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They help us stay connected with people in our social network
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that we would otherwise grow distant from,
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if we weren't playing games together.
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"I wish I'd let myself be happier."
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Well, here I can't help but think of the groundbreaking clinical trials
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recently conducted at East Carolina University
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that showed that online games can outperform
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pharmaceuticals for treating clinical anxiety and depression.
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Just 30 minutes of online game play a day
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was enough to create dramatic boosts in mood
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and long-term increases in happiness.
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"I wish I'd had the courage to express my true self."
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Well, avatars are a way to express our true selves,
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our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.
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You can see that in this alter ego portrait by Robbie Cooper
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of a gamer with his avatar.
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And Stanford University has been doing research for five years now
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to document how playing a game with an idealized avatar
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changes how we think and act in real life,
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making us more courageous, more ambitious,
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more committed to our goals.
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"I wish I'd led a life true to my dreams,
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and not what others expected of me."
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Are games doing this yet?
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I'm not sure, so I've left a Super Mario question mark.
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We're going to come back to this one.
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But in the meantime, perhaps you're wondering,
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who is this game designer to be talking to us
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about deathbed regrets?
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And it's true, I've never worked in a hospice,
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I've never been on my deathbed.
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But recently I did spend three months in bed, wanting to die.
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Really wanting to die.
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Now let me tell you that story.
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It started two years ago, when I hit my head and got a concussion.
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The concussion didn't heal properly,
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and after 30 days, I was left with symptoms like nonstop headaches,
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nausea, vertigo, memory loss, mental fog.
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My doctor told me that in order to heal my brain,
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I had to rest it.
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So I had to avoid everything that triggered my symptoms.
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For me that meant no reading, no writing, no video games,
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no work or email, no running, no alcohol, no caffeine.
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In other words -- and I think you see where this is going --
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no reason to live.
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(Laughter)
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Of course it's meant to be funny,
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but in all seriousness, suicidal ideation is quite common
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with traumatic brain injuries.
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It happens to one in three, and it happened to me.
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My brain started telling me, "Jane, you want to die."
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It said, "You're never going to get better."
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It said, "The pain will never end."
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And these voices became so persistent and so persuasive
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that I started to legitimately fear for my life,
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which is the time that I said to myself after 34 days --
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and I will never forget this moment --
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I said, "I am either going to kill myself
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or I'm going to turn this into a game."
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Now, why a game?
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I knew from researching the psychology of games for more than a decade
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that when we play a game --
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and this is in the scientific literature --
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we tackle tough challenges with more creativity,
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more determination, more optimism,
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and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.
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I wanted to bring these gamer traits to my real-life challenge,
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so I created a role-playing recovery game
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called Jane the Concussion Slayer.
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Now this became my new secret identity,
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and the first thing I did as a slayer was call my twin sister --
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I have an identical twin sister named Kelly --
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and tell her, "I'm playing a game to heal my brain,
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and I want you to play with me."
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This was an easier way to ask for help.
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She became my first ally in the game,
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my husband Kiyash joined next,
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and together we identified and battled the bad guys.
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Now this was anything that could trigger my symptoms
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and therefore slow down the healing process,
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things like bright lights and crowded spaces.
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We also collected and activated power-ups.
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This was anything I could do on even my worst day
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to feel just a little bit good,
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just a little bit productive.
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Things like cuddling my dog for 10 minutes,
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or getting out of bed and walking around the block just once.
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Now the game was that simple:
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Adopt a secret identity, recruit your allies,
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battle the bad guys, activate the power-ups.
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But even with a game so simple,
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within just a couple days of starting to play,
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that fog of depression and anxiety went away.
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It just vanished. It felt like a miracle.
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Now it wasn't a miracle cure for the headaches
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or the cognitive symptoms.
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That lasted for more than a year,
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and it was the hardest year of my life by far.
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But even when I still had the symptoms,
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even while I was still in pain, I stopped suffering.
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Now what happened next with the game surprised me.
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I put up some blog posts and videos online,
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explaining how to play.
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But not everybody has a concussion, obviously,
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not everyone wants to be "the slayer,"
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so I renamed the game SuperBetter.
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And soon, I started hearing from people all over the world
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who were adopting their own secret identity,
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recruiting their own allies, and they were getting "super better,"
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facing challenges like cancer and chronic pain,
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depression and Crohn's disease.
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Even people were playing it for terminal diagnoses like ALS.
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And I could tell from their messages and their videos
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that the game was helping them in the same ways that it helped me.
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They talked about feeling stronger and braver.
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They talked about feeling better understood by their friends and family.
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And they even talked about feeling happier,
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even though they were in pain,
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even though they were tackling the toughest challenge of their lives.
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Now at the time, I'm thinking to myself, what is going on here?
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I mean, how could a game so trivial intervene so powerfully
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in such serious, and in some cases life-and-death, circumstances?
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I mean, if it hadn't worked for me,
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there's no way I would have believed it was possible.
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Well, it turns out there's some science here, too.
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Some people get stronger and happier after a traumatic event.
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And that's what was happening to us.
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The game was helping us experience
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what scientists call post-traumatic growth,
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which is not something we usually hear about.
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We usually hear about post-traumatic stress disorder.
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But scientists now know that a traumatic event
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doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely.
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Instead, we can use it as a springboard
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to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.
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Here are the top five things that people with post-traumatic growth say:
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"My priorities have changed."
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"I'm not afraid to do what makes me happy."
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"I feel closer to my friends and family."
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"I understand myself better. I know who I really am now."
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"I have a new sense of meaning and purpose in my life."
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"I'm better able to focus on my goals and dreams."
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Now, does this sound familiar?
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It should, because the top five traits of post-traumatic growth
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are essentially the direct opposite of the top five regrets of the dying.
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Now this is interesting, right?
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It seems that somehow, a traumatic event
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can unlock our ability to lead a life with fewer regrets.
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But how does it work?
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How do you get from trauma to growth?
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Or better yet, is there a way to get all the benefits
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of post-traumatic growth without the trauma,
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without having to hit your head in the first place?
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That would be good, right?
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I wanted to understand the phenomenon better,
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so I devoured the scientific literature, and here's what I learned.
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There are four kinds of strength, or resilience,
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that contribute to post-traumatic growth,
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and there are scientifically validated activities
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that you can do every day to build up these four kinds of resilience,
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and you don't need a trauma to do it.
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I could tell you what these four types of strength are,
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but I'd rather you experience them firsthand.
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I'd rather we all start building them up together right now.
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Here's what we're going to do.
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We'll play a quick game together.
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This is where you earn the seven and a half minutes
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of bonus life that I promised you earlier.
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All you have to do is successfully complete
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the first four SuperBetter quests.
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And I feel like you can do it. I have confidence in you.
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So, everybody ready?
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This is your first quest. Here we go.
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Pick one: Stand up and take three steps,
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or make your hands into fists, raise them over your head
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as high as you can for five seconds, go!
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All right, I like the people doing both.
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You are overachievers. Very good.
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(Laughter)
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Well done, everyone.
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That is worth +1 physical resilience,
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which means that your body can withstand more stress
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and heal itself faster.
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We know from the research
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that the number one thing you can do to boost your physical resilience
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is to not sit still.
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That's all it takes.
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Every single second that you are not sitting still,
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you are actively improving the health of your heart,
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and your lungs and brains.
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Everybody ready for your next quest?
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I want you to snap your fingers exactly 50 times,
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or count backwards from 100 by seven, like this: 100, 93...
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Go!
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(Snapping)
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Don't give up.
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(Snapping)
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Don't let the people counting down from 100
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interfere with your counting to 50.
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(Snapping)
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(Laughter)
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Nice. Wow. That's the first time I've ever seen that.
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Bonus physical resilience. Well done, everyone.
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Now that's worth +1 mental resilience,
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which means you have more mental focus, more discipline,
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determination and willpower.
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We know from the scientific research
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that willpower actually works like a muscle.
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It gets stronger the more you exercise it.
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So tackling a tiny challenge without giving up,
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even one as absurd as snapping your fingers exactly 50 times
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or counting backwards from 100 by seven
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is actually a scientifically validated way to boost your willpower.
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So good job. Quest number three.
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Pick one: Because of the room, fate's really determined this for you,
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but here are the two options.
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If you're inside, find a window and look out of it.
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If you're outside, find a window and look in.
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Or do a quick YouTube or Google image search
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for "baby [your favorite animal.]"
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Do it on your phones, or just shout out some baby animals,
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and I'll put them on the screen.
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So, what do we want to see?
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Sloth, giraffe, elephant, snake. Okay, let's see what we got.
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Baby dolphin and baby llamas. Everybody look.
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Got that?
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Okay, one more. Baby elephant.
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(Audience) Oh!
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We're clapping for that?
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That's amazing.
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(Laughter)
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All right, what we're just feeling there is plus-one emotional resilience,
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which means you have the ability to provoke powerful,
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positive emotions like curiosity or love,
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which we feel looking at baby animals,
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when you need them most.
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Here's a secret from the scientific literature for you.
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If you can manage to experience three positive emotions
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for every one negative emotion
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over the course of an hour, a day, a week,
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you dramatically improve your health
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and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.
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And this is called the three-to-one positive emotion ratio.
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It's my favorite SuperBetter trick, so keep it up.
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All right, pick one, last quest:
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Shake someone's hand for six seconds,
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or send someone a quick thank you
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by text, email, Facebook or Twitter. Go!
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(Chatting)
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Looking good, looking good.
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Nice, nice.
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Keep it up.
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I love it!
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All right, everybody, that is +1 social resilience,
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which means you actually get more strength from your friends,
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your neighbors, your family, your community.
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Now, a great way to boost social resilience is gratitude.
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Touch is even better.
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Here's one more secret for you:
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Shaking someone's hand for six seconds
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dramatically raises the level of oxytocin in your bloodstream,
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now that's the trust hormone.
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That means that all of you who just shook hands
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are biochemically primed to like and want to help each other.
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This will linger during the break,
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so take advantage of the networking opportunities.
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(Laughter)
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Well, you have successfully completed your four quests,
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let's see if I've successfully completed my mission
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to give you seven and a half minutes of bonus life.
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Now I get to share one more little bit of science with you.
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It turns out that people who regularly boost these four types of resilience --
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physical, mental, emotional and social --
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live 10 years longer than everyone else.
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So this is true.
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If you are regularly achieving the three-to-one positive emotion ratio,
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if you are never sitting still for more than an hour at a time,
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if you are reaching out to one person you care about every single day,
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if you are tackling tiny goals to boost your willpower,
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you will live 10 years longer than everyone else,
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and here's where that math I showed you earlier comes in.
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So, the average life expectancy in the U.S. and the U.K. is 78.1 years,
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but we know from more than 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies
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that you can add 10 years of life by boosting your four types of resilience.
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So every single year that you are boosting your four types of resilience,
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you're actually earning .128 more years of life
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or 46 more days of life, or 67,298 more minutes of life,
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which means every single day, you are earning 184 minutes of life,
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or every single hour that you are boosting your four types of resilience,
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like we just did together, you are earning 7.68245837
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more minutes of life.
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Congratulations, those seven and a half minutes are all yours.
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You totally earned them.
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Yeah!
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(Applause)
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Awesome.
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Wait, wait, wait.
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You still have your special mission, your secret mission.
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How are you going to spend these minutes of bonus life?
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Well, here's my suggestion.
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These seven and a half bonus minutes are kind of like genie's wishes.
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You can use your first wish to wish for a million more wishes.
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Pretty clever, right?
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So, if you spend these seven and a half minutes today
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doing something that makes you happy,
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or that gets you physically active,
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or puts you in touch with someone you care about,
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or even just tackling a tiny challenge,
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you're going to boost your resilience, so you're going to earn more minutes.
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And the good news is, you can keep going like that.
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Every hour of the day, every day of your life,
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all the way to your deathbed,
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which will now be 10 years later than it would have otherwise.
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And when you get there, more than likely,
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you will not have any of those top five regrets,
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because you will have built up the strength and resilience
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to lead a life truer to your dreams.
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And with 10 extra years, you might even have enough time
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to play a few more games.
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
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