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It can be agreed that there are something that you can lean about life through playing games. This is because the games and the real life have things in common and because you can lean some skills to hide your emotion and read othersf mind that can be used in our life. Nonetheless, you have to be aware not to rely on the knowledge or skills that you lean out of the games.

We can learn about life thorough playing some games, because the games and real life has some common characteristics in a way that you will either win or lose. Whatever you will be either the winner or loser of the game, which can apply to our real life to some extent. For instance, when you go job-hunting, you either win or lose the position. No matter how you try hard, you cannot necessary be a winner. In this way, the games and our real life are similar, thus we can learn that you cannot be successful all the time in your real life just as the same in the games, and realise that this cannot be helped at times. This may help you to be stronger when you feel beaten in your real life, as you feel that this is the way the real life is, which can make you start looking at other objectives.

Another thing that you can learn about life from playing games is seen as a skill to hide your emotion and read othersf mind. You usually get excited, nervous, happy, upset and such, but you try not to show your emotion to others while you are playing the games. This is because showing emotion can give others some tips how you go with the game and what you are going to do to win the game or to attack them. However, you usually show some kind of emotion without being aware of it, which others may able to pick up and they can take advantage of it to win the game. In this situation, you can learn not to show your emotion. Another thing that you can train yourself to do with the games is to read others emotion. As mentioned earlier, they show what they are thinking, whether they are going to do something to you to win the game and how they go with the game. This can be through their facial expression, voice tones or gestures, which you may have to look at or listen carefully to read them.

These two skills can be useful in your real life in many ways. If you could tell if the person feels comfortable with your actions, you can correctly judge whether you can keep going or you should stop. Also, you can use these two skills in negotiation, for the skills enable you to decide how you ask a person to do something for you. For instance, suppose that you are asking your lecturer for giving you an extension for your assignment due and that you can read some of the lecturerfs mind. That is, you can tell if the lecturer is happy with giving you some extension. If he looks fine with it, you can just behave as almost usual, and you can ask him or her frankly. But if the lecturer was not fine with it, you will have to look a little hesitated but like being seriously in need of extension, and have to convince the lecturer that you were not lazy but need more time to complete the work. If you cannot realise that the lecturer is not happy with you asking him for this, and keep asking the lecturer as if you are just talking to him normally, you can fail to convince him to give you an extension. This underlines the importance of the skills to read othersf mind.

It has been discussed that games can give you opportunities to lean about life in terms of being a loser and skills to hide your emotion bur read othersf mind. However, one thing you have to be aware of is that you cannot just rely on what you learn from the games, as there are many difference between games and life. In real life, for instance, there are many situations where you have to find solution with which everyone wins, which is called win-win solution. Thus, it is necessary to keep in mind that the games are different from the real life.