> Boys have always been heavily into things. As opposed to girls, really? Or are boys just more at risk of being very lightly tethered socially, or not grounde

> Boys have always been heavily into things. As opposed to girls, really? Or are boys just more at risk of being very lightly tethered socially, or not grounded at all? I played Ambermoon not just before school, but before breakfast, for months until I had completed it -- nothing got me out of bed like that game. But still, I just now went through the list of these 10 items again, and I honestly don't see my younger self in that, at all. Maybe I'm in denial, but I can't even think of social things I let go because of that, it was the other way around, I lost interest for a while during puberty, then my interest was re-kindled as I got bored of partying. If I wasn't spending so much time at computers, I would just be reading more, I'm pretty sure. > The intellectual history of every genius is a series of obsessions. Is that really true? Isn't that just calling doing things and having interests obsessions? I think Hannah Arendt was a genius for example, I'm not seeing the obsession though. Every addiction can be called an obsession, but not every addiction an obsession.