An article called “Cognitive benefits of playing video games” written by Peter Gray Ph.D was published in Febuary 2015, shows research on video games positive effect on basic mental abilities. Dr. Gray basically goes over all the improvements in basic visual processes,  attention and vigilance, executive functioning, and in Job related skills. Some of these effects are very useful and important to our everyday function. For example “Green & Bavelier (2012) found that action video gaming improved performance on the ability to locate, quickly, a target stimulus in a field of distractors—a test that has been found to be a good predictor of driving ability.” This improves your spatial attention and can help the user be better at driving and can help the user be able to locate things quickly, like a parking space or your car in a parking lot. Another example is “A number of researchers have reported that experience with action video games improves people’s abilities to switch rapidly and without error between tasks that have conflicting demands.” This is useful because it increases your mental flexibility and in working complex jobs that require you to focus and switch between strenuous tasks, like flying a plane or working as a chef at a restaurant. Playing video games allows you to strengthen your brain and your ability to do multiple things at a time all while lessening your room for error. Having these positive effects can help you be more successful at whatever it is you do in your everyday life.