I dunno maybe D&D is Life

The leap comes when we realise that non-intentional preparation actually IS preparation, just in another form. Because it's more enjoyable than the forced stuff we have to do for a specific game, we do more of it. And it changes what we know, and how good we get at it, and how rational we become doing it and... ultimately, it gives us a group of skills we can apply to other things. Steady work enlarges our stock of patterns, instincts, procedures and solutions. We learn scale, we learn how rooms connect and how big they ought to be... and most of all, how repetition, drawing the same thing over and over again, pushes us to invent new things to draw, new ideas, new possibilities. Like the Spider