#2344 - Amjad Masad – The Joe Rogan Experience

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my day. Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. What's up? What's up,

Joe

man? Good. So, having this, big Counter Strike tournament in town, does that give you the Joneses?

Amjad

Totally. Totally. You know, it's like your so your your your your guy, Jason, was telling me about it, because, you know, in addition to driving, he also, you know, flies the, helicopter. And he told me, like, the Red Bull guys were, like, flying off, and there's, like, this big tournament. I looked it up. It was like, oh, Counter Strike. So I used to be a bit of a pro player myself.

Joe

So, how do you get out of pro playing? Because the problem with, like, playing games is that it's essentially like an eight hour a day thing. Like, it becomes a giant chunk of your life. Right? And I would imagine if you're playing pro, it's even more of a commitment.

Amjad

You know, I I take a different view on on on games. You know, a lot of people kind of view it as a as a sort of somehow, like, a negative thing, especially for kids. Actually, my, I got my kid my four year old, like, a Nintendo, Switch early on. We're playing together because I feel like, for me, it helped me a lot with, like, strategy thinking, with reaction time. Mhmm. I think, like, gamers tend to be can think think really fast and Have you seen

Joe

the the studies that they've done about surgeons? No.

Amjad

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