How World Of Warcraft Prepares You For Success In The Real World

World of Warcraft is no ordinary computer game

. I am not talking about the fact that it is a MMORPG (Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game), nor am I referring to the fact that it is one of the fastest selling games of all time, nor even that it is the biggest online game created with a consistent 11,000,000 active subscribers.

Even though these details do make world of warcraft special they are not the most important reasons for believing world of warcraft to be much more important than a mere computer game. This online gaming environment has been proven to be capable of teaching players skills and developing abilities in them that can be, and are automatically, transferred into the real world of work and play.

The truth is that World of Warcraft (WoW) grabs a players attention for all the usual reasons associated with a computer game. However, before long those same players are learning very real and usable skills that can be deployed at work, in social situations and a multitude of life situations.Think of the opposite of all those stories about how the negative effects of television violence and violent video games are "programming" people to be violent in the real world. Well, when it comes to World of Warcraft the opposite is happening and positive, desirable skills and abilities are "programmed in" and then used in the real world!

Playing the game at the start does not set it apart from any other fantasy game. Just the same as you would have to in any similar gaming environment you have to kill low level creatures to gain higher rank, have to farm items and perform simple tasks. You also die a lot in the low levels!

That's where the similarities end though because as you get your character up to higher levels the game becomes very challenging.

In higher levels the tasks you need to perform require real mental effort and agility. When you play the game at higher levels you will definitely have to mentally engage yourself in the game play.

In WoW it is not just the questing that requires mental effort. When you become involved in combat situations it not just continually hitting a button - you must think about what you are doing and how you plan to do it! When a player is engaged in high mental activities within world of warcraft that require the development of specialised managerial, organizational, time and people skills they find that these skills are automatically available to them in their real ordinary lives.

Once you join a guild and rise through the ranks to take on supervisory roles you must train and develop managerial skills that are taught at the highest college level without the college level price tag attached.

In fact, John Seely Brown, former director of Xerox PARC, says that World of Warcraft is the ideal place for entrepreneurs to hone their skills while many other experts claim that the managerial skills, crowd sourcing and other effective guild member abilities learned in the online world of warcraft are genuine leadership skills can only be replicated by expensive managerial tuition!

by: Joe O'Reilly

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