FAQ
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What Is Resilience?
Resilience, the ability to adapt, tolerate stress, and bounce from failure and adversity, is an invaluable inner strength and a crucial determinant of ultimate success. The strength of resilience can transform inevitable life struggles into opportunities for growth. Even though this strength can be honed throughout adulthood, intentionally cultivating resilience from a young age elevates…
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What is MyCuraJOY?
MyCuraJOY is an incentive-tied, science-based gamified experience for personal growth that helps people as young as elementary school to set goals, track progress, review performance, think positively and live out their dreams. Personal goals are turned into quests at MyCuraJOY, and users benefit from all proven effective productivity and success methods automatically applied to their…
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Too Many Quests? Exercises For Elucidation
Studies have shown writing about positive life goals topics to be hugely beneficial for our well-being and help us achieve our goals, so take some time to explore your future self and what you want to accomplish with the exercises below. In 2001, King asked students to write about either a traumatic experience, their best…
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How much do questers get paid?
Below is a chart of exactly how treasure chests are rewarded at the end of a quest. MyCuraJOY’s payout rate is designed specifically to maximize motivation and facilitate behavior change. It’s also important to note that MyCuraJOY doesn’t require 100% success for full treasure chest award qualification. Perfectionism impedes long-term personal growth, and we value…
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Details of how the Treasure Chest works
Psychologists and performance scientists agree that behaviors can be shaped by a consistently-implemented reward system. Treasure Chest is the reward–actual money–adventurers can earn by completing their quests successfully. It teaches and reinforces the important relationship of one’s actions and life outcome which builds a growth, success-oriented mindset. We’ve gotten requests for non-monetary treasure chest options,…
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How do I submit an entry for publication?
All you need to do is click on the Tell Your Story link on the Shining Moments page. We accept any original writing about a moment (yours or others) when one or more character (inner) strengths triumphed and helped you. As an organization promoting multilingualism, curaJOY accepts entries in any language from anyone, anywhere in…
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When and how will the winner of the Shining Moments Writing Contest be paid?
The $100 cash price can be redeemed via a visa gift card or gift card from popular merchants (i.e. Amazon, iTunes, Target). We will contact the winner to verify eligibility and payment preference within a week of the contest’s ending date.
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How do you determine the winner of the Shining Moments Writing Contest?
The post with the greatest number of likes at 1 pm PST on Monday, April 15, 2021. We will post a leaderboard on the Shining Moments main page starting March. You’re more than welcomed to “like” your own entry and invite your friends to do so. (But you won’t be able to vote repeatedly for…
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Why is curaJOY holding a writing contest?
The past year has challenged most families more than we could have ever imagined. Kids have had to adapt to virtual schooling, changing lockdown situations, missed team competitions and family visits, their teachers and parents’ working at home and the anxiety caused by these uncertainties–their own and those around them. We’ve also witnessed that words…
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My child is getting very frustrated by curaJOY’s games.
All of curaJOY’s StrengthBuilder are professionally designed and validated to assess and build resilience and cooperation as well as other key strengths such as communication, confidence, self discipline and empathy. Remind your child that this game is all about practicing and learning. We don’t often get anything right on the first try, but if we…
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My child forgot his/her password.
You may login to your account, and reset your child’s password from Account Dashboard >> Manage Children
