Gaming

I saw that Nintendo Switch is releasing an updated version of Goldeneye on the platform soon. It brought me back to my childhood and makes me want to go buy a video game platform. I played a bunch of Goldeneye as a kid. I beat the game and then when friends would come over, we’d battle each other and then yell at each other for cheating by looking at each others’ screens.

One thing I never realized when I was in my heyday of playing video games was just how much I was learning from playing games. There’s of course the hand-eye coordination behind it all. But there’s a whole lot of strategy behind playing video games as well. These strategies can teach you patience, risk-reward, social coordination, leadership, resource allocation…. the list goes on.

My Dad would always yell at me for playing too many video games growing up. I believe that this generation of parents will likely encourage their children to play more video games. And I believe that’s going to be a net positive for our future generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs.