Honestly? The same things.
Communication skills, spatial reasoning, visualization, critical thinking, problem solving, reaction time, hand-eye coordination.
Things they should also be teaching are empathy, compersion (as someone else said), kindness, introspection, self-awareness.
Empathy, Compersion
Oh man compersion would be huge. So many people don’t even know the word exists, never mind what it means.
My keyboard threw a hissy fit
*compassion?
Nope. Compersion
*cumpassion?
Same thing
Campassion is for people really into cameras and cumpassion is for people really into…
Deception
Procrastination
Adult games 👀 developing one handed gaming even if other games didn’t intend it to be.
Depends on what you’re talking about, and context.
Physical games? Definitely the relevant physical strengths if done at a semi-professional enough level, so muscles etc. Team games often also teach you some coordination, leading and organization skills.
For board games, planning, adaptation, even critical thinking. Social interaction skills maybe, too.
Patience
I’m comparatively old, but I have ridiculously fast reactions due to excessively playing all the DiRT - Rally games obsessively for years
Unfortunately it means I react often before something happens on the road irl 😅
Cooperation
Common sense?
King’s Cup
- Counting/mathematics
- Social skills
- Memory
- Body coordination
- Empathy
- Planning skills
- Bathroom competency
Lack of financial responsibility.
With RTS games. Planning, allocating scarce resources efficiently, patience, responsibility and self criticism, strategic thinking, deductive reasoning, multitasking.
There’s been studies:
https://www.wired.com/story/starcraft-cognitive-abilities/
https://www.psypost.org/enhanced-brain-connectivity-observed-in-frequent-starcraft-ii-players/
I play Overwatch 2 to keep my processing speed up (one of the best predictors of long term mental health into old age).
I got my boomer father an xbox for the same reason.
Postal 2 teaches you how to collect signatures for a petition 😁
Shogun 2 got me to read the Art of War and it totally helped me kick people’s asses online 🙂