This is true of any dopamine time suck. Social Media etc... One thing that is amazing though is that our actual lives do mimic RPG leveling up and gamifying our lives is actually a highly effective psychological tool that can be in service to crafting lives that are more aligned with our values and what we want out of life.
There’s a great podcast on this topic. It might even be a part of the TEdtalk series of podcasts (is that a thing?) But I remember it being a really useful perspective on the topic. I use it now in a lot of areas of my life.
These three points are what I also realized from gaming (WoW), and the more I worked on myself internally and made progress there, the less on-screen progress enticed me. Now I just like to takeover the world once or twice a week with a quick AOE3 skirmish (I avoid online matches), but even that serves my higher purpose now.
This is true of any dopamine time suck. Social Media etc... One thing that is amazing though is that our actual lives do mimic RPG leveling up and gamifying our lives is actually a highly effective psychological tool that can be in service to crafting lives that are more aligned with our values and what we want out of life.
Yeah you're absolutely right. I've learned a lot about life and systems from gaming.
I also think a lot of young highly successful entrepreneurs used to be really avid gamers.
It's an interesting thing to observe for sure
There’s a great podcast on this topic. It might even be a part of the TEdtalk series of podcasts (is that a thing?) But I remember it being a really useful perspective on the topic. I use it now in a lot of areas of my life.
These three points are what I also realized from gaming (WoW), and the more I worked on myself internally and made progress there, the less on-screen progress enticed me. Now I just like to takeover the world once or twice a week with a quick AOE3 skirmish (I avoid online matches), but even that serves my higher purpose now.