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How Dark Souls Helps You To Think About Failure
Video games teaching you about life? 🤷♀️
Dark Souls games are punishing for their level of difficulty.
They require your full attention, the ability to learn and recognize battle patterns, and the willingness to replay a section over 100 times before beating the boss. You can’t just waltz into a Dark Souls game without knowing what to expect. You probably wouldn’t enjoy the game at all.
With that said, Dark Souls games have a very strong and loyal fanbase. Even as someone who is terrible at them, I can still appreciate them and enjoy playing them.
But what is it that makes Dark Souls games so popular?
OK, well I’m not sure if I’ll ever figure that out definitively…
BUT for me, Dark Souls is all about failure. Learning from your own failure, from the failure of others, and not seeing failure as the end of the world. When you can learn from the mistakes you made to finally beat the boss, your victory tastes so sweet.
There’s also something to it that translates to how you should think about failure in life.
With that in mind, let’s explore what Dark Souls can teach you about failure.
