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Back in 2008, I created a theory called the Guitar Hero Curve of Impressiveness. It holds that others’ admiration for your gaming skills follows a bell curve: rising, rising, rising — until it crests over into a loathsome drop.
At some point, it becomes clear the time investment required by your mastery could have been better spent elsewhere. Attention shifts from your skill to the decisions that allowed you to attain that skill. Reactions change from “Wow, you’re good at that” to “Wow, you do not manage your life well.”
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shaun james bockert 