by Most of us might relate board games to having a fun family night or spending time with friends. But board games play a more prominent role in our lives. They teach us various important life skills that are crucial in our overall growth.
Board games help us understand ourselves better, our capabilities, strengths as well as weaknesses. They tend to teach us lessons about the real world and the life skills that help us tackle a variety of situations.
Many board games help your better growth to name a few, Monopoly, The Game of Life, Pay Day, The Game of Baloney, etc. All these games develop one skill or many based on the nature of the game. Here’s a list of 5 Life Skills We Learn From Board Games.
1. You Learn How To Strategize
Many board games help you learn how to strategize your every move. For example, chess is all about planning and strategizing your next step to achieve the ultimate goal of checkmate.
Strategizing every move step by step also develops logical instincts in a person that helps you make a better decision. In most board games strategy and logic are the keys to anticipate your opponent’s next move and then plan yours accordingly.
Both strategizing and logic come very handy as life skills in the real world. These skills help you think every decision in life and make better choices — that lead to reaching your ultimate goals easier than ever.
2. Helps you stay focussed and attentive
Focus and attention are the two primary life skills that you learn from board games. To play any board game from scratch, you need to read and understand how the game works, that requires utmost focus and attention. When you plan any move, you have to focus and attentively read your opponent’s strategy to reach your final goal.
A focussed and attentive player can very quickly tap his/her opponent’s potential move and plan theirs accordingly. Kids who play board games develop these skills at a very early age.
Staying focussed and attentive is quite crucial in both cases; board games as well as real life. Because if you get distracted, there are chances of you making a wrong decision that will make it difficult to reach your ultimate goal.
3. Develops Resource Management Skills
Board games like Monopoly and Settlers of Catan tend to improve resource management in the player. They create real-life money scenarios in a safe environment. Wherein you have to make decisions relating to money and face it’s consequences if decisions are poorly made.
Players develop trading skills and how to protect their resources. These skills help people make better life decisions in the real world, as well. Board games teach you how to handle money efficiently and how to save them as well.
4. Develops Patience
Patience is the most basic yet crucial life skill that develops when you indulge in any board game. A player needs and develops patience at every step until they reach their final goal of winning the games.
Patience is required at various levels like when you are first learning how to play the game, waiting for your turn, trying to start winning after losing a few times, etc. It is often said that patience is the key to playing any board game.
5. You Learn To Negotiate And Communicate
Some board games require its players to negotiate and make an alliance with their opponents to play the game forward. In a way, board games teach you how to communicate well with your peers.
Players must not back out if their negotiation does not completely go through and give results. Negotiation and Communication are the two life skills that help you in the long run of life.
If you want to know more about the life skills we learn from board games, check these out:
1 https://geekandsundry.com/9-life-lessons-learned-from-board-games/
2.https://www.theodysseyonline.com/8-life-skills-playing-strategy-board-games-will-teach-you
3.http://tnotgroup.com/generation5c/2018/01/10/board-games-life-skills/
