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Five Lessons Online Gaming Taught Me about Life
I was never a big gamer growing up. My parents thought it would distract me from school work and now that I’m older and make the big calls in my life, I can say unequivocally, my parents were spot on!
However, I realize there are certain skills gaming would’ve taught me and online gaming especially has highlighted. This goes beyond mad skillz, hand-eye coordination and being a gracious loser. Playing sports helped me to learn about those more rudimentary things.
The following five items are things I’ve learnt playing games online that I couldn’t help but find uncannily applicable to life itself.
1. People vary in behavior when they have a lot of money
Be it coins, gems, gold or whatever the label for a game’s currency is, I noticed that some players splurge on new characters, outfits, power-ups and XP boosts, whereas others sit on tons of loot and rarely spend any of it.
This surprised me because money in a game isn’t like money in the real world. Or at least, I don’t see it that way. Money in the real world can be the difference between actually living and actually dying.
Money in the real world means education, food and shelter. Money in the virtual world means a marginally better chance at winning…
