Interesting. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC117593/ Hypnosis - Lowered dACC activity (reward for learning center - monkey push button monkey get reward brain fires) then non-easily-hypnotised High Connectivity between Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (executive branch of decision making) and Insular cortex (Way down in the fee fees). Basically, people who make decisions off of emotions and find video games boring are going to be easily hypnotized.  They'll probably be hit by word of mouth, and celebrities; then figuring out systems and putting dots together.  Probably, didn't care about grades, but did not want to be called out by teacher because it makes them feel bad. Edit: it's late, I'm lazy, eat bad grammar.