"Growing up, I spent a lot of time at my cousin’s place, playing on her Game Boy all day. It’s one of my fondest childhood memories. We had one of those bootleg cartridges from China with 50 games in one – which was great, I played Pokemon a lot – but the downside was that you couldn't actually save your game. So I played the same games over and over from the start. I was that kid, always wanting to play games. It defined my childhood. There are even photos of me from friends’ birthday parties, sitting in a corner and playing a Game Boy while everyone posed for the camera. When I was around 12, I got my own Game Boy Advance from my parents and it meant a lot because we didn’t really have a lot of money. We only ever bought one game for it, Super Mario Advance, but I played it every day and I loved it. While I didn’t know it at the time, my childhood of gaming taught me a lot about resilience, all those endless days training in the earliest levels, losing, and doing it over and over again. You would think it gets boring playing the same games over and over again but it developed my ability to focus on a task, not get distracted, and just keep going."
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