Goodbye Testosterone, My Old Friend

Gabe Zichermann
14 min readJan 8, 2020
I was hoping to delay this conversation until my “chess in the park” years, but it was not to be

A few years ago, I went to my doctor complaining of excessive sleepiness. I’ve always been a champion “let me just lay down for 20 mins” kind of guy, but this was really different. My days had taken on a bizarre schedule where I’d sneak home after lunch for a “meeting” and lay down for a nap because I was exhausted. After waking up, I didn’t feel any better, and after a few months of this I decided to seek medical advice.

--

--

Gabe Zichermann

Author and Public Speaker on Gamification, The 4th Industrial Revolution, the Future of Work and Failure. More about me: https://gabezichermann.com