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551 How Boredom Leads to Brilliance with Manoush Zomorodi

The School of Greatness

CHAPTER

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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