Tomer Shaked is a 17 year old incoming high school senior and first time author. Upon receiving his first X-Box as a child, Tomer began to struggle with video game addiction. The addiction progressed, and he spent years of his life in a virtual world, instead of living in the real one—until one day—in one moment, he made radical change.
Wow! I never thought I would be here, writing a blog post to the readers of my first memoir. Well, that’s not entirely correct. In my mind, I saw this vision of success for myself when I wrote the first word of what would, in a few short months’ time, become Game Over: One Teen's Guide to Kicking Video Game Addiction. “See it. Believe it. Achieve it.” This is a quote I once heard and it’s true. I