How Gaming Can Help You In Life And Business

29 Apr 2024 · 0 min

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In this short monologue, Eric Siu explains how role‑playing games embody meritocratic, time‑gated systems where the effort you invest directly determines your progress. He highlights that games provide rapid feedback loops—players can instantly see what actions succeeded or failed and adjust accordingly. Siu then draws a parallel to business, arguing that the same principles apply: by reviewing analytics, identifying what worked and what didn’t, and iterating based on that feedback, entrepreneurs can improve their ventures just as gamers improve their characters.

Can you talk about how gaming has helped you in life and business? Role-playing games are really meritocratic, right? Like whatever you put in is what you get out. And oftentimes they're kind of just like time-gated, right? Like, so the more time you put in, the better you get. It also encourages like this rapid feedback system that you can take information that just happened to you and learn from it. And with business, it's very much the same. You look at your analytics, you say, okay, what went right here? What went wrong here? And then you learn from that and you iterate.