The Youtube clip shows the guy asking his wife to play a couple of games.
The thing about it is that there are many things he took for granted when playing games cos he has played games for most of his life. So many things are intuitive for him. However, his wife needed to learn how to play games. These days, there are so many different buttons on a game controller or the number of actions available on a keyboard.
So the wife needed to learn where all the buttons are and things that can be done.
The thing about this lesson is that we take a lot of knowledge in our life for granted.
There are folks who don't save money. Simply cos they didn't know they needed to.
They aren't used to it.
They never made their decisions taking into account things of the future.
Same for retirement. It's just not talked about enough such that people are interested and start planning for it.
Same for investments.
Overall, everything is about learning new skills.
If we have an interest and have someone to slowly teach us, especially the basics, it's easier to start on the journey.
Otherwise, it's hard to learn something new on our own. It becomes very intimidating to learn something new without someone else guiding and showing the ropes and also teaching the easy mistakes not to make.
Even for me, I have similar experiences.
I've played games for a bulk of my life.
But I struggle with some new games or certain types of games.
And I lose interest in them really quickly. I probably COULD slowly learn to play them better if I continued to work on it, but I typically just can't be bothered.
I can't play games like Starcraft, Warcraft, DotA...
I'm bad at first person games cos I lose my way easily and I get dizzy. I played Counterstrike when I was younger. It was easy enough cos the maps are small. I could perform pretty well, except after around an hour, I got dizzy.
I'm also bad at over the shoulder 3rd person games like Tomb Raider or Resident Evil. Cos I get dizzy after a short amount of playing.
I like RPGs. I'm sure most of you know that.
They are pretty slow paced, I have time to slowly explore. I don't need to make quick decisions.
But similarly, when I see my young nephews play RPGs, (they are less than 8 years old), they don't play the RPGs with similar experience. They don't understand the experience and level growth, the need to heal and save, etc...
Simply put, they need to learn these.
Same as I had to learn it when I was younger. Just that I forgot that I needed to learn such things cos it was so long ago.
So when we look at any kind of knowledge, it's not easy to learn new things.
Even things like looking out for good deals. Not everyone does that, simply cos, it's not a habit. No one taught them how to do it.
This gives me a better understanding and also tells me to be more patient with people. Cos, we are all at different levels of knowledge, and the knowledge we take for granted after years of slowly accumulating, isn't the same for everyone. And sometimes, a bit of help, coaching, encouragement, goes a long way to helping someone else learn a new skill, or new hobby, etc...
It's a good time to coach/learn a new skill during this period where most of us are staying home most of the time.
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