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AdriaandeJongh relates his two-year World Of WarCraft addiction during his teens. Feeling he was 'socially underdeveloped' among his peers, he quit and figured he'd simply wasted all the time he'd spent playing. Most articles about videogame addiction stop right there, decrying games for being pointless and removed from 'real world' issues. But AdriaandeJongh has thought a little harder about his experiences in the game and realised that it has taught him more than he'd originally assumed. From world economies to leadership skills, what he'd played had equipped him more for the real world than he'd ever recognised.

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