my life, my pace

Besides the fact that I’m clearly not Type-A enough (though I’m working on it)?

Well, the answer is video games! In this study, surgeons who warmed up before surgery by playing Super Monkey Ball for 20 minutes right before performing surgical drills made fewer mistakes and were faster. Well, I’ve played Super Monkey Ball and I sure suck at it. I’m also no good at any other video game except for Karaoke Revolution, which I doubt will help me here. Now I can blame the fact that I won’t be a surgeon on my parents for not letting me play video games when I was little (nevermind that I didn’t want to play anyway). How convenient.

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