There’s a subset of men out there who, if given all the cheat codes in a video game, wouldn’t use them. Not because they don’t want to win, but because they want to know they earned the win.1 They want to prove that they understand the game, that they can master it, that they can come out on top on their own skill alone.
And it’s that same subset of men w…
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