Boys have always been heavily into things. The intellectual history of every genius is a series of obsessions.
I'll be more wary in the future...
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.
Thankfully girls, poor smooth-brained things that they are, don't have to deal with the issue of passion, or genius, right?