World of Warcraft Can Boost Your Career

Hugh Pickens writes "Forbes reports that although videogames have long been thought of as distractions to work and education rather than aids, there is a growing school of thought that says game-playing in moderation, and in your free time, can make you more successful in your career. 'We're finding that the younger people coming into the teams who have had experience playing online games are the highest-level performers because they are constantly motivated to seek out the next challenge and grab on to performance metrics,' says John Hagel III, co-chairman of a tech-oriented strategy center for Deloitte. Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, spends six to seven hours a week playing online games and believes World of Warcraft trains him to become a better leader."

Comments

if that's true...

[jamesh]

If that's true, then why is everybody I know of who plays WoW or other similar games an overweight unemployed loser?

Just another excuse.....

[Berkyjay]

...to justify a gamer wasting his life away by accomplishing tasks completely useless to the planet and society.