Pick the guitar over the controller for an hour a day, and in a year you’ll own a skill nobody can take.

An hour spent on a skill and an hour spent on a game feel almost identical while they are happening. The difference is what is left over. One leaves a story about last night, the other leaves a small permanent change in what your hands can do, and those changes stack quietly until a year later you are somebody who plays.

This is not an argument against games. It is an argument for noticing that one of the hours you already have can point somewhere that accumulates. Pick the hour, pick the thing, and keep it small enough to survive a bad week.