18/11/2019
Gaming, over the years, turned into an amazing lifestyle filled with never seen before hype that taught people valuable life-lessons over the years… The evolution of gaming is an amazing thing and these below traits are still, if not more, relevant today!
1. Overcoming Challenges.
The entire point of gaming is to challenge yourself to grow beyond your current set of skills. When you immerse yourself in a game, you view each obstacle as an opportunity for growth instead of viewing it as a burden.
2. Goal Setting.
It’s a natural ability for every gamer to know how to track their own growth whether experience points or as part of a ranked hierarchy. All this information enables the player to track progress and ensures them a stable state of growth as everything in a video game is measured.
3. Habits. (Daily Quests)
People that play video games understand how habits compound down the road. In World of Warcraft, for example, there are daily quests, which you can only do once per day. If you skip a day, you miss out on the rewards given by those quests. The best gamers create a structure of small habits or routines they perform each day that build over time. This, in time, creates a change in mindset; You learn that it’s a sacrifice for instant gratification in the name of future gratification.”
4. Responsibility. (Guild)
If you say that you’re going to be online for a raid at 6 p.m. and you’re not online at the raid at 6 p.m., you’re letting people down. This kind of responsibility is no different than sports teams. It teaches you personal and social responsibility.
5. Leadership. (Team and Guild)
Mastering your craft provides an opportunity to take on a leadership position, which inherently allows you to grow because you have to “rise to the occasion and realize that other people are following your instructions.” To say for example, defeat a raid boss or win in a 5v5 competitive ranked match. That sense of responsibility expands your capability to influence and direct others to achieve a certain common goal.
6. Process Versus Rewards.
When you focus on mastering your craft, your growth curve is so much higher. If you focus on the reward, you’re driven by the wrong things. Many entrepreneurs fail because they’re only chasing money and the glorified image of being an entrepreneur in today’s culture. Competitive gaming helps you learn the importance of investing in the process rather than chasing an image. This mindset not only increases your growth curve but boasts a mindset of self-accountability rather than blaming others, you take the blame for your own mistakes and thus you learn faster.
7. “What’s in a Title?”
In some games you collect rare items, titles, etc. The great gamer never really gets attached to their titles as great as they may be because that’s where you start slacking and falling… Focus on your craft and your growth curve continues.
8. Healthy Competition.
Whether you’re competing against a couple of friends or competing online against the best players in the world, at the end of the day it’s a test of you against yourself. You’d want to be as good as a player as you possibly can. Video games help you realize that if you want something, you need to go all in and earn it.
9. Creating a Persona.
When you play online games, whether you realize it or not, the way that you write ends up creating an idea of who you are in the brain of the other person. Personas are constantly created by people; some people just do it with more purpose than others. You might hate them for it but you’re also going to look at their content every single day because they’re so good at it that you don’t even realize it’s an art.
10. Personal Branding.
Everyone can create a persona, but then really good people can monetize off of it. We are moving into an era where our online lives speak even more about us than our physical selves. If you have that skill of able to brand yourself so you know how to create the way someone else perceives you, that is considered magic in today’s society. Think famous twitch streamers in this case.
