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Which people learn about life by playing games teaches, or not is subject of debate. Some people think that playing games is meaningless because it is just for having enjoyable time. However, I think that we can acquire lessons by playing games because it make us realize not only relationship between endeavor and reward but also opportunity cost.
First of all, I agree with the idea that playing games has didactic aspects because people can learn about the relationship between endeavor and reward. To be specific, in most of game, people should make effort in order to get rewards or to graduate into next stages. In addition although the next stages are more difficult to settle them, people get rewards again by making much endeavor. I think that it is same with our life because in order to get rewards effort is required. After enough amount of endeavor, people can obtain rewards such as employment, high wage, and scholarship. For example, I realized this lesson when I was a student. I used to play the game, called as starcraft. The much time I invest to the game, the more players I can win. Thus, by investing time and endeavor, I acquired ability to play the game, as well as got the high level in the game.
In addition, considering the opportunity cost, people can learn about life by playing games. Apart from that we realized lessons in game, as I mentioned above, playing games itself provide another lesson. We have to give up our time in order to play games, because we can not do two things, such as studying and playing the game, at the same time. Especially, many students give up their time to study, enjoy with friend, and love, for playing games. It is similar to life. We should give up some values in order to obtain other things. In my case, I sometimes played games when I was young, and I knew that I could not do any other things to play the games. Now, because I realized them at that time, I know that I can not make performances in both area, being lawyer, and being soccer player. So, I concentrate on the way to be a soccer player now.
In conclusion, although playing games is unlikely to be helpful, it provides some lessons. We can realize that reward requires to make effort, as well as that we should consider opportunity cost when choosing specific values. Playing game may be our teacher of life. |
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