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551 How Boredom Leads to Brilliance with Manoush Zomorodi

The School of Greatness

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The Positives of Playing Video Games

She's an unusual case in that she was thinking about transitioning to being a man. And so for her, like as a kid who didn't fit in socially and high school, video games were a place where she found people who didn't care what gender she was. She felt like those were her real friends. That was her real life. For some of them, I think it's like, how am I going to pay for this? Wow. I'm going to get really freaking good at video games and that'll help me pay for it.

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