video games

“If you want kids to retain what they study better, you should have them play video games first, and then do their homework, and then study before they go to sleep, because if you study first, and then as your reward, you get to play games, When you go to sleep…”

“If there's a game that all your kids, friends are playing, even if it looks a little bit like, Ooh, I don't know. It's, is there some realistic violence or not? The benefits they get from playing the same game as their peer group. Should outweigh whatever y…”

“First of all, there's a cultural currency to playing the games that your peers are playing, and one of the big benefits that we know kids get is that kind of social confidence when they are in the culture as their peers.”

“Video games, the number of people and the hours that we've spent playing them has skyrocketed, and yet violent crime has gone down almost on the same curve, and so it's just, it's like completely ludicrous, and nobody actually believes it increases violence.”

“There are 2.3 billion people on the planet now who regularly play video games. So like one in three people have actively chosen to make games a part of their lives, which is really exciting.”

“People who can talk about that, they tend to bring those skills to their work, to their learning, to their relationships, to their hobbies and all you have to do to get somebody to transfer the benefits of games to real life is just have that conversation, and…”

“Your fantasies are likely to be informed by whatever media you're consuming, whether it's graphic novels or movies or video games, and so you may act out what you've seen in a game. If you weren't a gamer, you might act out what you've seen in a movie.”

“The number one thing we know, any game that you love, I don't care if it's League of Legends, it's Fortnite, it's Candy Crush, whatever, whatever you feel drawn to we know that there is a transferable benefit, which is you get better at learning new things. At…”

“By the way, 21 hours a week is like the tipping point where we do start to see it can get in the way of physical health or mental health.”

“If you want kids to retain what they study better, you should have them play video games first, and then do their homework, and then study before they go to sleep, because if you study first, and then as your reward, you get to play games, When you go to sleep…”

“21 hours a week is, like, the tipping point where we do start to see it can get in the way of physical health or mental health.”

“Now, if you know video games, and I know video games, and if you know phones, and I know phones, the idea that your kid is going to be able to stop themselves at a certain time is, is just probably setting everyone up for failure. It's just, you get sucked in,…”