I love gaming. I’ve learned a lot from playing video games. I don’t believe that gaming is bad for you or causes kids to be violent. Rather, I believe that the kids who are violent have personalities that are just violent already. Gaming doesn’t cause it. I think gaming is great and you can actually learn a lot of useful real-life skills from gaming. They’re also really fun.
Gaming has taught me teamwork, cooperation, and collaboration.
Before I started gaming, I don’t think I was much of a team player and didn’t cooperate with people well. Even though it’s a game, you can’t mess around. You’re working with other people and have to consider their goals in the game. You have to think about others and their goals, and you can’t inconvenience others. You’ve got people on your team who have their own goals and you have to support each other to reach your goals. When you work together with a team, you can have a better outcome.
Gaming has taught me focus.
When you’re in a game and on a team, you have goals and you want to stay alive. It takes focus to do that. It has also taught me to get straight to the point and not get caught up with side talk. With gaming, you have a goal and you go after it.
Gaming has made me way more social.
I can play games with my friends at any time of day. I can stay connected to my friends in Orlando on a daily basis, even though we moved away to the woods in SC. I can also play games with kids I meet in our travels. Gaming is something I can always connect with people on when I meet them out in the world. I have friends all over the world that I can game with.
Gaming teaches me strategy and problem-solving.
You have to think about the situation and find strategies and tactics to overcome whatever challenges are in front of you. You have to make decisions. You have to think about the consequences of your decisions. You have to work together to solve situations in the game. You have to work together to go where you need to go, collect the things you need to win and use them in ways together to help you win. I also learn trial and error. You try a strategy and it works, you move forward. Sometimes you try a strategy and it doesn’t work, and you move on to the next one. It works. You move forward. Until someone finds a counter. Then you move on to the next one. Just like life.
Gaming teaches me how to be a good leader.
You have to lead your team. You sometimes you have to follow someone else’s lead. You have to think about the goals of the team and motivate others to do certain things in the game that will help the team. You also have to teach newbies how to play without making them feel bad. Gaming gave me a passion to help other people meet their goals, too.
Gaming gives me passion.
After playing Rainbow Six Seige, I got obsessed with Special Ops and the SAS, the best special forces in the world. It made me passionate to learn more about the SAS. I have a main named Thatcher, who is SAS and based on a friend of my Uncle Steve’s who was part of the Iranian Embassy Siege Operation Nimrod in the 1980’s. After playing this game, I wanted to learn all about that event and all about the SAS. I’m reading a book my grandfather gave me about the SAS. So the passion extends beyond the game to include all kinds of learning.
