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1. Really wanted to say thanks for creating this!

   Really wanted to say thanks for creating this! I don't usually play games often so the concept was initially a bit strange. But I'm learning and living your insights with each little "aha" that comes after reading each quest

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2. Just wanted to share my week

   I signed up to lose weight but I also decided to downlaod several other powerpacks, regarding my anxiety disorder, negatvity, love-hate relationship with my body. I had a week that would normally put me through the ringer, including lay-offs at my work place, breaking an all time highest weight, and stress relatedto relationships. But this week has turned out to be a joy. I am happier than I remember being in a long time and I think that even just a week of Super Better has really made me super better. I feel healthier, happier, more optimistic and more intune with my inner self than I can ever remember feeling. Please keep up the good work. You are truly making a difference.

   I signed up to lose weight but I also decided to downlaod several other powerpacks, regarding my anxiety disorder, negatvity, love-hate relationship with my body. I had a week that would normally put me through the ringer, including lay-offs at my work place, breaking an all time highest weight, and stress relatedto relationships. But this week has turned out to be a joy. I am happier than I remember being in a long time and I think that even just a week of Super Better has really made me super better. I feel healthier, happier, more optimistic and more intune… more

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3. A message for Jane

   I have only just begun. I saw you speak on Superhacks and I thought I would give it a try on your webpage. I don't know much or understand a great deal of how the website works yet but may the Forces that be Bless and Keep you for doing this. My story was very similar to yours except the damage to my head was done by my now ex-husband to be. Bless you for providing this opportunity and for free. I have a love for you that someone so good could still be out there. Thank you. Merry meet.

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4. Thank you for Super Better!
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5. Just positive feedback

   Not really an I idea, just positive feedback.

   Im currently a counseling grad student and I work for an organization that works with children and teens with "behavioral disorders". I work with teens, most of whom battle depression anxiety and ptsd. I just saw the TED talk on Super better and checked it out online. Flipping amazing. I want to start a game with most of my clients. Great job and thanks for sharing.

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6. Alain de Botton / School of Life

   Hi SuperBetter community! I've been reading /Religion for Atheists/ by Alain de Botton, and found a section on annotating successes and dictating behaviors with symbolic rewards -- that is, parents tasking their children using 'star charts' -- very relevant to what SuperBetter's project is. I'll cite two sentences but you can track down the text on Amazon's search inside this book pp75-77.

   "If the idea of an adult star chart seems odd but not wholly without merit, it is because we are aware, in our more mature moments, of the scale of our imperfections and the depths of our childishness. There is so much that we would like to do but never end up doing and so many ways of behaving that we subscribe to in our hearts but ignore in our day-to-day lives. However, in a world obsessed with freedom, there are few voices left that ever dare to exhort us to act well... we are holding to an unhelpfully sophisticated view of ourselves if we think that we are always above hearing well-placed, blunt and simply structured reminders about kindness."

   Anyway, mostly just sharing, not a product suggestion -- though I wouldn't doubt that de Botton would delight in making a School of Life powerpack filled with interesting quests. Superbetter is fantastic, helping me and my friends both; thanks much.

   Hi SuperBetter community! I've been reading /Religion for Atheists/ by Alain de Botton, and found a section on annotating successes and dictating behaviors with symbolic rewards -- that is, parents tasking their children using 'star charts' -- very relevant to what SuperBetter's project is. I'll cite two sentences but you can track down the text on Amazon's search inside this book pp75-77.

   "If the idea of an adult star chart seems odd but not wholly without merit, it is because we are aware, in our more mature moments, of the scale of our imperfections and the depths of our childishness.… more

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7. Charge us money, already!

   You update your company blog roughly once a month. You've had a new site design in the pipeline for almost a year. Y'all are clearly understaffed and underfunded. Jane can give talks til she's blue in the face, but the product needs some work. And it's begging for sponsored PowerPacks etc since you've got so many little features and options, and some of them are begging to go behind a pay wall for the betterment of the whole. Like I want to change "physical" strengths so they're called "willpower" strengths, and it took me less than a month of use to decide that I was willing to give you money for the privilege to do so.

   Here's a great model for having a pay component: https://www.fitocracy.com/become-a-hero/

   You update your company blog roughly once a month. You've had a new site design in the pipeline for almost a year. Y'all are clearly understaffed and underfunded. Jane can give talks til she's blue in the face, but the product needs some work. And it's begging for sponsored PowerPacks etc since you've got so many little features and options, and some of them are begging to go behind a pay wall for the betterment of the whole. Like I want to change "physical" strengths so they're called "willpower" strengths, and it took me less than a month of use… more

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8. SuperBetter, a force for good.

   I know I posted some of this in the Mobile App section, but I want to put it here as well to make sure that someone, anyone, from the team that developed, maintained, consulted or helped this project take place can read this:

   You should all be so proud. I hope you realise every day how many lives you've saved and how many people you've made better through this. You may not be scientists curing cancer, you may not be solving global conflicts, but what you've made here could have just as much of a profound, positive effect on the world.

   I hope one day, the global press find that too and reward you with just as much praise and gratitude as any of the others.

   I may not be rich or powerful enough to reward you with much, all I can do is use words, the tools of my trade, to make it abundantly clear that ( hopefully without seeming hyperbolic or patronising) this stuff matters.

   Plenty of people will thank you for what you've made here, I can't pretend to be any more important than anything they have to say. But I also know how easy it can be when you have such a constant and massive wave of gratitude to very slowly and subtly, let it start to wash over you and find it hard to feel as much joy for each individual story when there are so many of them. I'm not suggesting it has happened, but I know how easily it can happen without one realising.

   So all I would ask, of anyone who can, please just take a few minutes out of your surely hectic working day today and let yourself realise how much of an impact you've made. Allow yourselves the moments of pure joy and utter pride in what you've created.

   "...whoever preserves a single soul, it is as though he had preserved a whole world."

   Thank you.

   I know I posted some of this in the Mobile App section, but I want to put it here as well to make sure that someone, anyone, from the team that developed, maintained, consulted or helped this project take place can read this:

   You should all be so proud. I hope you realise every day how many lives you've saved and how many people you've made better through this. You may not be scientists curing cancer, you may not be solving global conflicts, but what you've made here could have just as much of a profound, positive effect on the… more

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   AdminSuperBetter (CEO / Founder, SuperBetter) responded

   Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful thoughts. We deeply appreciate your feedback and gratitude. I have forwarded this message to the whole team to enjoy. Thank YOU for sharing your positivity and vision with the world!

   Warmly,
   Rose

9. Thank you

   Thank you so much for making a terrible time in my life bearable. I was inspired to look into SuperBetter when I saw the TED talk about extending your life. I'm 22, studying at uni and about to finish and the whole notion of the big wide world is sending me into the territory of mad anxiety, but I'm already seeing improvements and aim to get SuperBetter at dealing with it :)

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10. LOVE

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11. Love the app great idea - thanks TED :-)

    I may have not achieved much so far but my motivation is getting better :-D thank you Superbetter and TED for introducing me :-)

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12. Mood Elevator up, Depression down

    I really just wanted to take the time to let you guys know that SuperBetter is helping me combat my depression. I go through depression like waves: for some periods of time, I'm up; then, a random day will come along and bring me crashing down. It's always very difficult for me to get up out of these down times, even though I go to a licensed therapist regularly. This time, however, I'm using SuperBetter, particularly the Mood Elevator power packs. I'm finishing ground floor now and moving on to the first floor. Please keep them coming! :) I'm sure I'm not the only one they're helping. And keep up the great work! You guys are awesome!

    I really just wanted to take the time to let you guys know that SuperBetter is helping me combat my depression. I go through depression like waves: for some periods of time, I'm up; then, a random day will come along and bring me crashing down. It's always very difficult for me to get up out of these down times, even though I go to a licensed therapist regularly. This time, however, I'm using SuperBetter, particularly the Mood Elevator power packs. I'm finishing ground floor now and moving on to the first floor. Please keep them coming! :) I'm sure… more

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13. Reprogramming my Brain

    I love how the "game" changes my point of view. Toiling up to the third floor via the steps instead of floating effortlessly with the elevator... well : I GET POINTS!!!

    ANd I laugh at myself, and still take the stairs. And looking at the list of powerups and Quests I am reminded I do do things for myself during the day, so the day wasn't so bad.. and oh look- I could do THAT right now... and get points.

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14. This has really helped :)

    Thank for all your hard work :)

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15. thanks and can we create power packs?

    Thanks so much! I have been achieving more with less burn out using SuperBetter!
    I have lost 8 pounds, gained confidence and support, and improved my "tool kit" and daily progress in my graduate school work!
    Will we be able to create our own custom power packs?
    Thanks again!

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16. Thank you so much for creating this app and sharing it with me, free of charge! I LOVE it!!!
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17. PPL - you are FREAKING AWESOME !!

    I just love SuperBetter!! It gives me a wonderful structure for things I already wanted to change LOONG time ago, but now I kind of can keep track of it - play with it, improve and see my progress!!! :)
    THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR ALL OF THIS !!! :)
    Looking forward to seeing the page grow! would also love to have some charts showing how i'm battling the bad guys!! :)

    All the best!! Keep going !! you are awesome !!! :)

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18. From To-Do list to Tah-Done.

    I love being organized. Well, I don't personally think I am but I appear to be. I'm actually quite a forgetful character, a scatter brain who struggles with distinguishing priorities and drops details more often than she can remember.

    I love to get things done-that I know for sure-but it isn't something that is easy to do. In order to do something you have to be persistent; you have to desire something so badly that you will find out how to do it, how to do it well, and fight off discouraging set-backs and remarks. Constantly. Not everybody can do this. Not everybody will be successful.

    I've always LOVED To-Do lists because of how useful they are for my forgetfulness! I make them all the time. I get excited about something new and it to the list. I cross out old tasks and-what were these things?-leave question marks to recall details for other tasks.

    After some time the lists I make look rather beat up. Smudge marks and crinkles, a corner torn off and a random address in the other. Sometimes I need more than one paper to continue a list and abandoned ones always show up later. I'm pleased when I can cross out everything on really old ones, and I make a point to combine lists and rewrite lists, but as I do the list grows, and grows, and starts to look less exciting.

    Finally I put everything online, all my papers, all my notes, and most importantly, my To-Do lists. Saves a lot of paper and headache, but as life goes on, now when I cross something out two more tasks appear and the whole idea of a list has lost its urgency. I've found myself ignoring the master list for the most part.

    Relying on my memory alone is a disaster and my anxiety turns blind when I can't remember details and priorities. Looking at this digital document I find it clumsy and overwhelming, but with a list that is bigger than my hands, something with too many details and deadlines, it is no longer effective. Easy to get lost, overwhelmed, and disoriented, difficult to focus on priorities and discern from leisurely activities.

    In my most unproductive and anxious hours I finally found SuperBetter, a more engaging way to accomplish big goals by turning tasks into quests, inspiration into power-ups and setbacks into bad guys you can defeat. With a universal goal of 3 daily tasks and constant encouragement (from yourself and others!), I'm learning how to create a more friendly and comprehensive To-Do list.

    My first ultimate goal is to win scholarships. I start with an old list of scholarship search engines (a list of scholarships would be impossible). I create quests, one to use the search engines, one to list scholarships relevant to me, complete with details about deadlines and requirements, one to create a professional work portfolio, one to use this portfolio to apply for scholarships, and one to do monthly check-ups on applications. Instead of, 'Find scholarships' scribbled on a piece of paper and tons of hours spent towards questionable progress, I can relieve some anxiety because the process is outlined aesthetically for me, and it is easy to see how I have progressed since day one. Once all the Quests, Power-Ups and Bad Guys are set up, all I have to do is persistently knock out these Quests.

    I've nearly figured out how to use SuperBetter to transform the To-Do list of a person with too-many-goals-to-adequately-outline-on-paper into a useful tool for categorizing tasks and nesting details. I've learned how to control anxiety by realistically focusing on a minimum accomplishment, and better measure time with deadlines turned into count downs. Discovering this site feels like a major step forward in my organizational skills because now I have goals whose task details I can digest and whose three daily Quests I don't want to miss!

    I love being organized. Well, I don't personally think I am but I appear to be. I'm actually quite a forgetful character, a scatter brain who struggles with distinguishing priorities and drops details more often than she can remember.

    I love to get things done-that I know for sure-but it isn't something that is easy to do. In order to do something you have to be persistent; you have to desire something so badly that you will find out how to do it, how to do it well, and fight off discouraging set-backs and remarks. Constantly. Not everybody can do… more

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19. Share on Facebook

    I would love to tell everyone on Facebook about this wonderful app. I'm not interested in everyone seeing my progress just advertising the app itself.

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20. Thank you for adding becoming vegetarian/vegan as standard option!
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