11 Life Lessons We Learned Playing Minecraft
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1. Life is precisely as hard as you choose to make it.
Feel like you’re living life in Survival mode? There's always a way to make things more Peaceful. Or Creative.
2. Nothing is completely hopeless.
If you can grow cacti and find mushrooms in an underground hellscape, you can find something fun to do in your supposedly boring neighborhood. Look harder.
3. Bells and whistles are overrated.
Your friend’s Tesla sure looks shiny. But bleeding-edge visuals don’t necessarily mean you’re having the most fun.
4. It pays to be kind.
See that guy over there? The kinda dumb one which the squid-like nose and horrible brown outfit? Be nice! He may be the only guy for miles who has those melon seeds you need.
5. There’s no excuse for a lack of creativity.
You don’t need a bajillion-dollar graphics tablet to let your mind go wild. If others can build unique worlds using nothing but cubes, you can create your own masterpieces, too.
6. Guidebooks are overrated.
Just go somewhere new and look around. Minecraft doesn’t come with a guidebook, and neither does life.
7. There is nothing new under the sun, and that’s OK.
Your unique masterpiece isn’t unique. (Just Google Minecraft Taj Mahal/Starship Enterprise/Colossus of Rhodes, and there’s your proof.) But that doesn’t mean you haven’t created something wonderful.
8. Yes, one person can make a difference.
Minecraft was created not by a multinational corporate overlord, but a guy who goes by the nickname Notch. Just think about that for a second.
9. Embrace the bizarre.
Logic would dictate that wearing a pumpkin on your head does nothing to save you from a deadly monster. But it does! And who thought that an accidental lab spill would give us penicillin, right?
10. Craft everything with pride.
Sure, you can make a sandwich on the floor. But you can make a more elaborate, more advanced, much tastier sandwich if you invest in a nice table.
11. Never underestimate yourself.
If a blocky-looking guy named Steve can survive an all-night spider-and-zombie invasion with nothing more than a few blocks of dirt, just imagine what you can do if you put your mind to it!