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Mashable is running an interesting article today titled 6 Things World of Warcraft Can Teach You About Social Media Success. It is about the life lessons the author of the article learned while playing WoW.

I took the courtesy to summarize them all here but pay a tribute to mashable by visiting their website first.

The Lessons

1. Success requires constant dedication – To succeed, you need to put in time and dedication.
2. It’s important to strategize your communication – If you don’t communicate effectively and clearly who you are and what you want no one will listen.
3. Set an objective and develop a strategy – Do not attempt to utilize social media without any specific objective or idea on how to be successful. You will fade away because you didn’t try to participate actively in the community or just didn’t know how.
4. It’s about networking – The people you connect with are incredibly important. It can mean the difference between success and failure.
5. Join new services, create new lines of communication – You should always be looking to create new lines of communication and new people to interact with. Rely on these people to educate and enlighten you. Expand your horizons by trying out new things in social media.
6. Earn other people’s trust – People won’t trust you until you can show them that you are to be trusted. Enough charlatans exist that you have to prove your value first before earning respect.

All of this reminds me of something I wanted to do for long, long time. Let me explain. In my high school years me and my friends used to organize late evening StarCraft tournaments – nothing too obsessive, two games max per day and no more than 1-2 hours long. We used to do these tournaments for a couple of months and it was then when I noticed similarities between the strategies involved in the game and the things that we do in real life. I very rarely play strategy games these days but I’ve always wanted to summarize in a blog post or something my conclusions from my experience when I used to play.

I guess now I have an incentive to finally sit and do it.

Can we slow time? Not just yet! But time is also perception so for some it will go faster while for others it will always speed up. Therefore, mastering the perception of time is a life skill which unfortunately is not covered by our modern education systems. Although, it could prove to be very, very useful in life.

In the video footage above, produced by Michio Kaku (an extraordinarytheoretical physicist), we learn that time does slow down when brain speeds up. This reminds of this movie Crank, the guy on adrenalin. It also proves that humans are capable or thinking and perceiving faster then the usual rate. But this is kind of directly dependent on other functions in our body.

People say that we use 10% of our brains but we fail to note that all other human characteristics like walking, coordination, in general things that we take for granted, do require a lot of processing power. So although we can work faster, it is unfeasible to do so unless we compromise other areas of our body. It feels like constructing a character for one of these RPG games. You have 20 points and you have to spread them equally to various characteristics. If you put to much brain, that will effect your agility.