How Video Games Can Teach You To Be A Better Person
Geek Psychology: Play Life Better
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Show Notes
This episode talks about how years of gaming can teach us to live a better life.
Games are so often seen as a waste of time - something you do to escape the real world, or otherwise a childish hobby. But what if games have more to offer? In this video, I explore how years of playing video games can teach you some surprisingly valuable life lessons about personal growth and change, and how you can take those lessons into every aspect of your life. Do you want to learn how to play life better?
When we start to look at games as tools for personal growth, we uncover the fact that we all have countless stories and techniques neurologically wired within us. As gamers, we have more power and skills, than we give ourselves credit for.
Here are some lessons I've learned.
1 Characters:* We can analyze the challenges we face in life and see how other character classes could deal with them. Each character has a different approach to the challenges that the game creates. We've all been in a situation where we wished we were playing a different character - with a different skill set - to handle the problem more easily. Neuro-Linguistic Programming utilizes the \"As-If\" frame, which says, essentially, \"fake it until you make it\" - or as I like to say \"play it until you're good at it\" because experimenting with different approaches lights up new neural pathways, mirror neurons, and the key to all learning \"curiosity\". These are all important for shaping your actions. And, according to Robert Dilts' Logical Levels, the intentional actions you take will transform the environment you are in.
*2 Obstacles:* We can use games as a framework for the mindset that we bring to deal with obstacles in life. The skills you have honed from years of playing games can be applied to your day-to-day engagements. Every action has consequences. And each obstacle presents a new challenge and, instead of looking at it from the Character's perspective of \"how to solve this problem\", look at it from the benefit or challenges that come from achieving the goal. So next time you're facing a big bad in
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