Best Board Games for Families
When looking for the best gift for your family wouldn’t it be great if the gift could not only bring your family closer together but also help you at work and help your kids in school and prepare them for a successful career. You may ask, how can a board game help you in your career and help your kids in school? The key, is Transferable Skills. Board games teach you real life skills that help you succeed in life. Here are the top transferable skills and the Board Games that teach them.
1. Learning to Fail
This one may seem a little counter intuitive. How can learning to fail help you succeed? Learning to fail is one of the single most valuable lessons to learn in life. The ability to fail, learn from it, and try again is a fundamental building block for success. If you are still not convinced listen to what Michael Jordan has to say.
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan
Board games that allow you to fail readjust your strategy and try again are best. Stick to games that have a good amount of strategy but don’t take forever to play. The more times you can learn from your failure the better chances you have at succeeding. Playing a game that last 2 hours when you know you lost 50 minutes ago is just punishment. Games that give you the chance to succeed. Spy Alley, Chess, Checkers,
2. Learning to Adapt
Adaptability which in this case would be the ability to deal with changing circumstances and change your strategy to best fit your situation. This is always going to be a useful skill, life is one big set of changing circumstances and your ability to deal with these changes determines how successful you will be. Board games with a good amount of skill and uncertainty are great at teaching us how to deal with change. Board games will teach you to anticipate lifes changes and deal with them to the best of your ability. Sometimes you get dealt a poor hand but it what you do with it that counts.
The Seceret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates `
3. Communication
Communication is the foundation to nearly every interaction that takes place in society. So getting better at it will undoubtedly help you with every interaction that you have. Communication is not only speaking but it is listening, listening with your ears and your eyes. To truly understand someone you need to listen to both what their saying and what clues their body language is giving about their thoughts, emotions and motivations. There are some great board games you can play to not only hone these skills but have a blast doing it. Were wolf, Spy Alley,
“The art of communication is the language of leadership” James Humes.
This holiday season give your family the gift that keeps on giving. Get your family the tools to be successful every day. A small investment in a board game will pay dividends the rest of your life. Not to mention they bring families closer together and provide lots of fun!