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On Quora, a site where people ask and answer non-trivial questions (often related to business and entrepreneurship), somebody asked the following:
What are some skills learned through playing StarCraft that are useful in other parts of life?
There is an excellent answer which I wanted to share with you. It's written by Charlie Cheever, who is the co-founder of Quora (which is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of $, i.e. that guy is pretty successful) and also a passionate SC2 player. Here's an excerpt:
Macro is usually more important than micro but at critical moments, micromanagement can mean the difference between massive success and disastrous failure. For example, if you are making a movie, building a great team of actors and other people to work on the movie and getting enough funding, etc. is generally going to drive the success of the film, but if there's just something off about the story, then the movie can fail so that's something that might need good micro. (Star Wars I-III could be considered examples of this.) For a StarCraft example, see 8:30 - 9:30 into InCa vs. Rain M4 Set 1 here for an example of having a good strategy and good macro but then screwing everything up with bad micro at a critical moment.
>> Read the rest here.
// Article on Business Insider:
Facebook Millionaire Charlie Cheever: All I Really Need To Know, I Learned Playing Starcraft
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I think if you play a lot you become fast at typing. This is kind of an important skill.I know before I played computer games I did something like 20 WPM but can now do upwards of 100.
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Dedication, repetition and learning how to focus upon something.
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On April 27 2011 18:55 DoXXaN wrote:
multitasking...
lol i dont think so.
I multitask awesomely in SC2.
But then i have more than 3 msn convos going on net and i forget whats going on in some while im surfing the web. =/
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great emphasis on problem solving
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Certainly my typing, i can type so much faster now than before i played Starcraft, and with more accuracy. I guess its just to do with using your hotkeys loads.
Also, doing stuff while under pressure has improved, for example I had to type up an essay in an hour a few days ago and I did it no problem without really feeling stressed out or anything.
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Being focussed on the learning aspect. Whenever i watch of play some Starcraft i always ask myself: what am i learning at the moment or how can i learn from this.
I think that emphasis has some effects on my normal life.
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On April 27 2011 18:49 Highwinds wrote:
I think if you play a lot you become fast at typing. This is kind of an important skill.I know before I played computer games I did something like 20 WPM but can now do upwards of 100.
My typing has become worse as I have played more games. You tend to only use three fingers on your left hand during Starcraft, but you should use five when typing. Obviously the space bar isn't included in Starcraft, but the fact that most people don't use their pinky while playing means that they don't learn proper typing habits. This was even worse in Brood War, where you had to hit buttons on the right side of the keyboard with your left hand.
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On April 27 2011 18:57 andrewwiggin wrote:lol i dont think so. I multitask awesomely in SC2. But then i have more than 3 msn convos going on net and i forget whats going on in some while im surfing the web. =/
I actually take pleasure in doing many things at the same time (multitasking in the morning =D) and I save a bunch of time this way =D
Typing is also a big factor. Good response by the guy though!
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On April 27 2011 18:49 Highwinds wrote:
I think if you play a lot you become fast at typing. This is kind of an important skill.I know before I played computer games I did something like 20 WPM but can now do upwards of 100.
i typed 110 wpm before i ever touched starcraft2
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On April 27 2011 20:03 alepov wrote:
i typed 110 wpm before i ever touched starcraft2
How many of them were of interest to anyone?
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sc2 has helped me with many economic assignments. no joke!!
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just no, starcraft doesn t help in real life, no game does...
These brain games for DS dont work as well...
it is just publicity, many tests had shown that
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On April 27 2011 20:33 BlACKTrA wrote:
just no, starcraft doesn t help in real life, no game does...
These brain games for DS dont work as well...
it is just publicity, many tests had shown that
Have you even read Charlie Cheever's post?
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catching the train because of perfect timing :D
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Charlie Cheever is actually really active in the StarCraft2-part on Quora so I'm not so surprised.
He's even an old BroodWar fan which you can see here: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=570415904791 (with special shout-out from Tasteless)
And also - Quora is an awesome site and the SC2-part on Quora starting to grow and it could actually become a really good part of Quora. So please give this guy some love and register for Quora :D.
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I am convinced that BW and SC2 have helped me immensely to improve my multitasking. It sounds funny but for example while cooking I am so much faster and multitask so much more than before (and I still just cook once a week ;p). The difference is really enormous for me, but I have to admit that I also played quite a lot 
Another aspect is that it helped me to concentrate much better over long periods of time. For example if I have to finish a research paper for a certain day the main difference between me and my friends is not that I start with the work earlier but that I am amble to work concentrated over a longer period of time and thus my results are usually better.
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