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Today, I'm going to be talking to you about how I decided to make my life into a video game.

And when I was younger, I looked at the world very differently than I do now.

And that thought pattern that I had when I was younger caused me a lot of suffering.

You know, something would go wrong in my life. And my first thought would be like,

why is the universe doing this to me? Why do I have such bad luck all the time? Why is it always

everybody else gets good luck and I get all of the shit? And it could have been, you know,

money stress or relationships falling apart or even just like unexpected detours that my life took.

But I saw every challenge that came to me as some sort of evidence

that there was something wrong with me or worse that just life was not fair in any sort of way.

So it's like there's something wrong with me. There's something wrong with life. And it was

kind of like my first half of my life was I was just in battle with the world,

with myself, with everything else versus being a part of it. And I'll be honest with you,

like I was really, really good at playing the victim. Like I had a black belt in woe as me.

And my internal dialogue in the way that I would narrate everything that was

going on and the way that I gave meaning to something that was going on is I would always say stuff

like, oh, why do I always have the worst luck? You know, why can't anything just be easy for me?

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