The real-world benefits of playing a lot of games

The original, concise, version of this article was published in Lantern, a publication that examines the business of living. Collectively, human beings spend billions of hours playing games every week. It may sound like an epidemic, but gaming has its own benefits. Companies are starting to consider gaming in potential recruits. Gaming helps people make faster decisions (with equal accuracy as slower decisions). And now, people can make a full-time career of playing video games (one guy makes millions). Moreover, each individual can learn lessons from games that they couldn’t, or didn’t, pick up from school. For example, author Malcolm...

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