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&lt;p&gt;Here&#39;s a piece of career advice that you won&#39;t hear too often: spend more time playing video games. Specifically action-oriented games such as &quot;Call of Duty 2.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; src=&quot;http://www.vault.com/VCM/articles/Videogamers.png&quot; alt=&quot;videogamers&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt; According to a recent Bloomberg article, research has found that &quot;[p]laying action video games primes the brain to make quick decisions.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The study pitted two groups of against each other in a problem-solving exercise: those who had played fast-paced action games versus those who had played slower strategy games such as &quot;The Sims 2.&quot; The results: those who had played the action games &quot;made decisions 25 percent faster than the strategy group, while answering the same number of questions correctly.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The takeaway, according to the scientist who led the research team: &quot;Action game players make more correct decisions per unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of a battlefield, that can make all the difference.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So now you know: if you want to improve the speed of your decision-making&amp;mdash;a key leadership skill&amp;mdash;bust out the Xbox and start shooting something. Or at least use this as an excuse the next time you get caught scratching a gaming itch during office hours!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--Phil Stott, Vault.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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