Interestingly, in the old days people would normally say that games (video gaming in particular) encourages unhealthy lifestyle, limited social life and generally leads us astray from our priorities like school, family, civic duties and the like, nowadays clearly not anymore. Gaming encouraged some good disciplines studies show. Still just like anything it should be in check and moderation. In some way responsible gaming breeds responsible people.
The article talks about successful executives who consider themselves gamers and how video games made an impact in their careers. Among them is Stephen Gillett, the chief information officer of Starbucks, and Elliot Noss chief executive of domain name provider Tucows. They use their gained experiences from video gaming and apply those principles in real life.
"We're finding that the younger people coming into the teams who have had experience playing online games are the highest-level performers because they are constantly motivated to seek out the next challenge and grab on to performance metrics," says John Hagel III, co-chairman of a tech-oriented strategy center for Deloitte. Hagel has been studying the effect that playing videogames has on the performance of young professionals in the workplace. – Forbes.comHere are the top reasons How Playing Videogames can Boost Your Career
1. Leadership
Management of individual dynamics and clear lines of hierarchy in the party helps develop leadership skill.
2. If At First You Don’t Succeed
Don’t give up. Learn from mistakes. Return to respawn point then try again.
3. It’s About Teamwork
There is no “I” in the word teamwork. You work for the team not the team working for you.
4. Developing Talent
Improving your current skills and learning new ones are just some of the aims of gaming.
5. Learning to Improvise
Thinking out of the box and rediscovering the things around.
6. Performance Driven
You don’t want to be level gapped. Keep up the creep farming.
7. Living for Challenges
Gamers constantly seek new challenges one after another. Professionals who are also gamers seek this out unconsciously.
8. Competition
Ranking ladders and scoring feeds further improvement of one’s game. PVP anyone?
9. Becoming an Entrepreneur
Searching for more ways to be lucrative and improve economic status. We also bring this in the real world.
10. Managing Information
Learning to research and taking note of vital information then processing them to accomplish quests and assignments.
Does that mean entries like "guild leader" or "virtual island business owner" will become more common on resumes? Not yet, but maybe soon. Says Hagel: "I anticipate in the not-too-distant future this will be as standard a part of your resume as where you went to school." – Forbes.comFor a more details from the list on boosting career through gaming, click on this link.
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