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The sad part about it is many of the people who naturally achieve stuff in videogames could also be successful in life with a little therapy to overcome their a
by partyboat1586 6y ago
The sad part about it is many of the people who naturally achieve stuff in videogames could also be successful in life with a little therapy to overcome their avoidant personalities.
I know people who were heavy into WOW and decided to make life the real grind. They have done very well for themselves.
- NeverFade 6y agoYes, the basic traits that lead to video game addiction are actually beneficial in most real-world scenarios: Identifying challenges, focusing on them, engaging in behavior that overcomes them, persisting in that behaviors until signs of success manifest, and then feeling rewarded by these signs of success. These are all traits that really do tend to lead to skill-building, self-improvement, and success when applied in REAL contexts. The problem with video games is that they create an ARTIFICIAL context to exploit these traits. It's not you who improved your fighting skills by mindlessly mashing that button 20,000 times - it's your avatar, a fictitious being. But games are set up so that you will feel the sense of accomplishment. Games is conditioning our generation to gain the rewarding sensations of fitness, self-improvement, and survival success from trivial activities that are merely dressed up to appear challenging and "masculine".