Philip Zimbardo’s recent research on the “Demise of Guys” (i.e., the crisis of masculinity in Western culture) has concluded the average guy spends ten thousand hours playing video games by age twenty-one.15 Ten thousand hours. My mind jumps to the research around this rule; in ten thousand hours, you could master any craft or become an expert in any field—from Sumerian archeology to Olympic water polo. You could get your bachelor’s degree and your master’s degree. You could memorize the New Testament. Or, you could beat level four of Call of Duty.
