Unfortunately, it’s an almost essential skill.We don’t have to accept everything in the world — but we do have to be able to accept when we fail, or accept when success doesn’t look the way we thought it would.

I worry sometimes that we’ve put too much weight on success. That we’ve sacrificed everything else to make success our religion and our creed, as though that’s where we can measure a life.

That’s where we get this idea that we’ve got to hack everything, or we’ve got to do everything. That’s where we get the incredibly misguided idea that people who are successful in one area must be experts in all others. We listen Jim Carey talk about vaccination like a few hit movies make him a medical expert.

Warren Buffett plays the ukulele. Larry Page played the saxophone growing up. Scores of other entrepreneurs and business leaders have learned an instrument growing up or still play to this day.

There’s no denying the link between playing music and achievement.

Video games have been shown to improve memory, spatial reasoning skills, strategy, and even social skills.

So whether you’re solving complex puzzles, killing waves of zombies in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, or becoming a rich criminal mastermind in San Andreas, just play in moderation!