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What a Video Game Taught Me About Leadership
For decades all around the world, however, video games have been used as teaching tools, educating kids on a plethora of subjects like history, pattern recognition, critical thinking, and more since the early 1990s. (Think Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, Tetris, SimCity, Starcraft, etc.)
If games can teach us how to recognize patterns, develop plans of action, think critically, manage resources, problem solve and more, could a game you play online help you develop leadership skills that you can apply in RL? (that’s real life for those who don’t speak gamer)
The Maddening of Madden: How a Video Game Taught Me a Lesson
Madden constantly brings out my “Ginger Rage”, which is far worse than what happens when the Incredible Hulk loses a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. I have gone so far to punch my couch and storm into the kitchen loudly proclaiming I would never play the game again, only to turn it back on after I cooled down half an hour later.
From a Certain Point of View
Obi-Wan Kenobi tells Luke Skywalker in A New Hope that Darth Vader betrayed and murdered his father. After Vader reveals to Luke that he is in fact his father Luke confronts Obi-Wan in Return of the Jedi and tells Obi-Wan that he lied to him. Obi-Wan explains that Anakin Skywalker ceased to be and became Darth Vader and the good man inside him died when he turned to the dark side. Obi-Wan comments that his explanation of Luke’s father’s death was true from “a certain point of view”.