| Video games are the number one form of | | | | set up to process information as we would see it in |
| entertainment, bigger than movie theatres. For most | | | | nature, not on a TV screen. |
| people there is more money being spent on games | | | | There are some interesting therapies that help learning |
| than education. Interestingly the biggest growth | | | | disabled children that involve doing everything in three |
| segments is 25-35 year olds. How do these games | | | | dimensions and nothing in two. When a person spends |
| affect our self-confidence? | | | | a lot of time working with just two dimensions, like |
| I have a contact at the highest levels of the video | | | | monitors or books, it can change how they think. That |
| gaming world and I asked this person what kind of | | | | change will affect how they feel about themselves. |
| games are the most popular. Can you guess what | | | | What can a person do? Join a sports team. I do not |
| they said? Anything violent, I doubt anyone is surprised | | | | think video games are going away any time soon. I |
| by that piece of information. | | | | saw a new type of TV that has a full |
| This exposure to violence affects our fight or flight | | | | three-dimensional picture. It will make home |
| response and can seriously change how we perceive | | | | entertainment even more popular. As we are not going |
| people around us. Are they going to attack me, if only I | | | | to throw the TVs away getting outside into an activity |
| could just hit my boss with a ray gun? You may laugh | | | | will help a lot to combat it's negative effect. |
| but there are plenty of new reports of people | | | | You need to move your body and be using your |
| re-enacting video game violence in real life. | | | | minds. This will allow your minds to work as designed |
| These people have had their self-concept, or how | | | | and when they do that we feel better and that will help |
| they think of themselves, so changed they act in ways | | | | our self concept and self confidence. The bottom line |
| they never would have in the past. | | | | is watch less TV, play as few video games as |
| The other interesting thing spending time playing games | | | | possible and get into a team sport it will do wonders |
| on a two-dimensional screen is how it changes brain | | | | for your self-confidence. |
| function. The brain likes things in three-dimensions, it is | | | | |