It is important to explore our hobbies. Because sometimes hobbies might change into your passion and passion might change into your profession.

I have multiple hobbies, and the most favorite is photography and gaming.

I was interested in games from my childhood but rarely played – due to the unavailability of gaming devices. And after completing high school, my parents bought me a laptop – which gave me access to the gaming world.

I played games on both mobile as well as a laptop. I also played many games like action, arcade, and adventure. And I ended up liking RPG games more than any other type of game.

While explaining the things that I learned from gaming, I will be referring to RPG games as a medium of context. Because In my opinion, RPG games are the best – as it provides us with a storyline.

And the best part of these types of games is you will learn more by playing the role of that character. It’s like living another life via a virtual medium.

In this blog, I will tell you about the top 10 things that I learned from gaming, and you can also know it. And these ten things will make you a better person in life.

1. Skills

In most games, you can only unlock special abilities – when you have enough skill points. And you will get more skill points – when you gain more experience.

This is equally comparable to our real life. You can’t do anything extraordinary without having any skill, and you cant improve any skill without having experience.

Gaming will teach you this vital lesson that, without any skill – you cant overcome any obstacles and move on to the next level. The real fun in gaming is when you have extraordinary skills.

2. Resilience

There is no game where you will never fail even once. In fact, in most RPG games – you will often fail and be drastically beaten to death. You have to fall again and again until you find a way to tackle a specific situation.

And this will build your resilience to recover quickly from a failure and come up again with a better idea. This mindset is most important in life – where you have to recover from previous losses to deal with better problems ahead.

3. Responsibility

In real life, when people fail – they often try to play blame games. They will mostly blame others or the situation for their wrongdoings.

But games can build a good thought process of taking responsibility in their own hands because there is no one to blame until you are playing a multiplayer game – where a team is involved.

4. Exploration

Just like in real life, games are also designed to have surprises. And you will never know – what you will get in some places. You have to explore more and more.

Somethings silly that you have collected while exploring may make something great out of inventory. The mindset to explore “what happens when we look at some places, where we haven’t looked at” – is essential in many life cases. You may find so many life-changing opportunities.

5. Experimentation

In the way the exploration is essential, experimentation is also equally adequate. When you play games, you will fail while facing certain formidable enemies. It would help if you experimented your way in different approaches every time.

Sometimes when you experiment using the same weapons or combination of weapons, you may find extraordinary ways of fighting.

And in real life, too, you have to experiment your work with different types of tools and ways in your mind. You may find cool hacks to complete your job.

6. Patience & Perseverance

While taking RPG games in context, there are missions where you don’t have to be fast; you have to be extremely slow. And you will need patience to play that kind of game, as they are not given the pleasure of shooting enemies continuously.

Patience and perseverance are only obtained by putting yourself into practice. And it will be fantastic to develop this kind of ability by playing games.

7. Planning & Strategizing

If you take games like sekiro and control, you have to think yourself and come up with a strategy to defeat enemies. In these types of games, you will not have pre-guided tutorials most of the time; this can put your brain into practice – just like playing any other puzzles and brain games.

Your brain will practice a constructive thought process – even with the random clues.

8. Problem-solving

By having the skills like – planning, strategizing, and experimentation, you will become a capable person for problem-solving.

If you can look up to real-life problems just from a gamer’s perspective, you will see the options and opportunities more clearly than anyone else.

9. Laughing at yourself

Laughing at yourself is not a skill, but it’s the kind of mindset you should have.

This will teach you – not to take your failure seriously, so laugh and be happy at your funny moments (Sometimes). Laughing at yourself and moving on is much appreciated than crying all the time and getting stuck there itself.

10. Teamwork

Games like Pubg may improve your ability to do teamwork.

Most outstanding achievements are not achieved individually; you will need an excellent team to handle multiple things. But to go through that journey, you have to be a good team player.

If you want to guess how a person behaves with other people – sports and games are a great way to hunch their behavior.

Conclusion

There are so many things to learn in real life. But you don’t have to wait for big moments to happen – to learn something.

If you can observe your hobbies and other habits with keen interest – you will discover more essential life lessons.

Just don’t kill your hobbies in your life as a waste of time – just because it doesn’t make money for you. And most importantly, don’t consider money as your self-improvement metric.

If you are not a gamer, try exploring games – maybe you will find something interesting.

Play it for pleasure if you are a gamer but don’t get addicted to its escapism.