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This document compares and contrasts outdoor activities and playing video games. While video games can stimulate intellectual skills like concentration, logic, and problem solving, they do not provide physical or social benefits. Outdoor activities are aerobic and promote physical fitness, but do not necessarily improve concentration. Both can encourage competition, which is psychologically healthy. The conclusion is that a balanced mix of outdoor activities and video games is best for well-being.

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Outdoor Activities

This document compares and contrasts outdoor activities and playing video games. While video games can stimulate intellectual skills like concentration, logic, and problem solving, they do not provide physical or social benefits. Outdoor activities are aerobic and promote physical fitness, but do not necessarily improve concentration. Both can encourage competition, which is psychologically healthy. The conclusion is that a balanced mix of outdoor activities and video games is best for well-being.

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Outdoor Activities Vs.

Playing Video Games

Video games are often under fire from publicity-hungry senators who want to pander to the older
generation. However, as time goes by the people who enjoy video games now will soon be in power. But,
until that day we are forced to question whether video games and outdoor activities should be compared
and contrasted. This essay compares and contrasts outdoor activities.

Video games

Video games are not designed to burn off a lot of energy. They are not aerobic in any way, nor are they
able to increase physical fitness.

Video games are able to stimulate intellect and help to teach people how to focus on one task for hours
on end. It gives a psychological reward for extended concentration and effort.

Video games stimulate the competitive urge in people, making them more amenable to real-world
competition. Competition is healthy and therefore it is a good thing to stimulate it as much as possible.

Video games force people to use logic and other problem solving elements of their mind. This helps them
to become slightly more proficient at problem solving in real life.

Video games help people to come to terms with being on their own for long periods. This is healthy as
people who are over dependent on human interaction are often mal adjusted when it comes to
independence and having their own direction in life.

Outdoor activities

Outdoor activities are aerobic, even if a person simply takes up walking. This means that energy is burnt
off which helps to increase physical fitness.

Outdoor activities are not really set up to help a person concentrate. In fact, they often involve allowing
the mind to wander, as this is often part of the relaxing element involved with outdoor activities.

Outdoor activities that involve games are just as competitive as video games, and so are good for people
on a psychological level. Encouraging healthy competition is what helps people strive to be better.

Outdoor activities do not stimulate logic and problem solving elements in the mind, but does stimulate
spatial and lateral thinking elements in the brain. It also helps to build mind to body coordination, whereas
video games only stimulate hand-to-eye coordination.

Outdoor activities are far more social than video games, which means they help people to become more
sociable. They make it easier for people to come together in groups and take part in social activities.

Conclusion

It seems pretty obvious that a person should indulge in both video games and outdoor activities in equal
measure. Just like any form of recreation, too much of one thing can be bad. A healthy mix of outdoor
activities and video games is going to be healthy and positive for both adults and children.

You have to mix the two topics into one in the sections of similarities and differences. You cannot have
all those paragraphs (maximum 5). This essay is on internet so it is invalid. You cannot do it or you will
get 0 in the score.

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