“He’s actually not that intelligent when it comes to analyzing stuff,” Boddy says. “To me, intelligence is picking up skills quickly. He’s really shitty at [that]. But he’s really good at brute-forcing things.… He doesn’t belong in the big leagues, but he’s there because he’s delusional. I wish that was the story that could go out there, but it’s not that popular. It sends kids a different message rather than ‘You can do anything.’” The message, Boddy suggests, is that achieving lofty ambitions requires maniacal obsession. “To me, that is true skill acquisition. He gets the most out of who he
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