>>513795541 (OP)
You'd have a point if you were talking about adults.
Do you really think 10 year old Chad was thinking exactly this and planning it all out years of "grinding" in advance? He had a Chad father or at least a Chad older brother who instilled their Chad charisma and expectations on him, he was mentally healthy and fit in well with all the mentally healthy normies who enjoyed the same things and got excited the same way. All his life something like football was something her could do any time with minimal effort, when Saturday morning came, he wasn't thinking about playing video games, he was thinking about playing football, because for him it just meant going outside with all these people who were like him and accepted him.
By the time he was 13 he had been playing football or basketball or something with the other Chads and Brads for years, and now he was entering puberty and his intelligence was starting to increase. Now, perhaps, he started to plan, but he only did so in a teenagerish fashion and because of the past 3 years and his social group it was far easier than for some 13 year old nerd who gets a crush. Perhaps awkward at first he had plenty of opportunity to learn, if he embarrassed himself, he'd get another chance, where as the nerd was likely blown off and permanently ostracized his first attempt.
Now they are 16, they have intelligence resembling an adult ethnic minority, a body nearly adult size, but Chad has 10000 hours of socializing with his peers whereas Eugene is some nerd who never crossed his developmental milestones and probably no one gives a shit about him. Perhaps Eugene's mother scolds him and tells him he's a bad person, but she never really explains why and has no idea what to do about her wayward son. Chad has 3 years experience.
By the time they are 18 and start being judged like adults it is like Chad is a grand pianist while Eugene is only allowed a few minutes on the piano before someone slams it shut.