When Grant Johnson got to college at the age of 18, he realized he had a problem. He wasn\u2019t motivated to study. He wasn\u2019t dating. He wasn\u2019t an athlete. And he was in debt. He didn\u2019t know what he wanted to do with his life, and he had a hunch why.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dad and brother got me into playing video games before I can even remember,\u201d Johnson, now 25, told me over the phone. \u201cGrowing up, there were times where I\u2019d go online right after I got home from school until I went to bed. When I graduated high school, I would spend upward of 12 hours per day online.\u201d<\/p>\n
Back then, Johnson had two computer monitors. On one, he\u2019d be playing video games like League of Legends, and on the other he\u2019d be watching anime, or something on Netflix, or YouTube videos. At college, he told me, \u201cI didn\u2019t know why I was there . . . I was just wasting my time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Grant Johnson got to college at the age of 18, he realized he had a problem. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-156779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}