If you ask them why they walked away from something they were passionately interested in and worked hard at, they’ll tell you they lost interest in it. To everyone around them, that doesn’t make any sense. Who cares? others ask. Do you have to be entertained all the time? Isn’t it time to grow up? And Scanners don’t know how to answer. They just know they can’t do boring things. And they know that they really have no choice.