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eptional. Excelsior. You know who says that? Excelsior. Stan Lee used to say that. You know, now I don't know about you. This is kind of weird. Just start off with something weird. But ever since Trump stole my democracy, everything seems exactly the same. I'm trying to figure out what's going on because I know my democracy is gone, but I wake up and everything looks a lot like it used to look. W…

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you are making it. Are you guys all surviving your complete lack of democracy? Oh man.

Let's talk about some news. Let's call this backwards science. Backwards science. According to Medical Express News, in a study at the University of Sheffield, Shan Bonn is writing there's this video game called Counter-Strike. I've never heard of it, but apparently it's a very popular video game. It's a first-person shooter kind of a game. And what they found was the scientists found at the University School of Psychology that the experienced and highly skilled players of that game are faster at decision-making and executing a response. So they speculate that maybe if you got people to play more video games, they would also become faster decision-makers and faster at executing a response.

Does that sound right? Not to me. To me that sounds like backwards science. Backwards science. Well, let me put it this way. When I was 12 years old, I tried playing football, you know, because everybody plays every sport when you're a boy. And I very quickly realized that football would not be my strength. That no matter how much I practiced at football, I was never really going to be a great football player. Didn't really have the body or the brain for it. Luckily, so I didn't get any brain damage.

But at also about 12 years old, I played tennis for the first time with, I think, my mother, with a couple of rackets that we bought at Sears that were already strung, back before I knew that stringing the racket right made a difference. And the moment I started hitting a tennis ball, I said to myself, huh, I don't know, might be my imagination, but it seems like I could be kind of good at this. Because my ha

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nd-eye coordination was good. And so for the rest of my entire life until recently, I was a tennis player. And sure enough, I was. You know, for somebody who just plays on weekends and is a casual player, I got to a pretty high level for a casual player. And so here's what I discovered. People do more of what they like and what they're good at. And the thing that makes you like something is being…

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