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In my experience, there's a strong correlation between aptitude at video games and success. This is just my small, possibly skewed sample, but my closest friend
by panorama 11y ago
In my experience, there's a strong correlation between aptitude at video games and success. This is just my small, possibly skewed sample, but my closest friends I've met through playing WarCraft 3 as a teenager at a competitive level all became high-income, successful, happy people, usually in tech or finance.
I whole-heartedly believe playing video games early on helps nurture a strong competitive drive, discipline, and self-motivation. It probably depends on the game, too. I was playing Civilization II as a 9 year old, played strategy games like StarCraft and WarCraft competitively as a teenager, and eventually played online poker for a living. I don't know if simply playing Candy Crush would yield the same results.
- throwaway999777 11y ago> , and eventually played online poker for a living. oh wow.
- lqdc13 11y agoI played competitive Starcraft and then Warcraft III with several friends. One still works as a cashier in a grocery store. One works in IT support. One works for the gov't as a bureaucrat. I also played WoW with a lot of people. Out of ten people who I still keep in touch with, none did exceptionally well at making money. All of these games were major addictions for me, and I'm kind of glad I'm out of that phase. If some of the people I played with spent as much time doing anything else as they played video games, they would have moved mountains. But perhaps that is not the point. We had a lot of fun, and it was a very enjoyable time for everyone involved. And maybe that is the most important thing.