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I want to circle back to something else
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that I think was really foundational for
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me in this whole like figuring out
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getting diagnosed and then having this
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period of like I am just trying to
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connect to the world around me in so
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many ways.
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I was looking for friends
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because I didn't have friends. I had
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people that I talked and worked with on
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a computer screen for eight hours a day
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and that was my connection to the
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outside world. It's what happened to us
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during CO. It's what's happened with
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completely remote companies and there's
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pros and cons.
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But if you're listening to this and you
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don't have real in-person friends that
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you can call and you can say, "Hey,
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want to come over and play a game
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tonight?"
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Find ways to do that. Because that was a
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lot of what I couldn't I couldn't say it
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at the time, but that was why I was
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starting businesses. That's why I was I
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was like, I'm going to become a content
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creator, right? And go on the internet
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and and connect with people. That's why
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I got so sucked into social media
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because I thought those connections were
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what I needed. And what I needed was a
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hug. What I needed was to get out and
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and watch a band that five other people
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are watching and get up on stage with
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them and and like actually have real
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human interactions. Um, one of the most
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amazing things that's happened to me in
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the last 6 months is I joined a baseball
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team and [clears throat]
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Sandlot baseball is making a resurgence.
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I played baseball when I was nine and 10
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and haven't played since. It's a friend
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group and we get together. We see each
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other in person. like tomorrow we're
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gonna go to our home field which is full
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of weeds and and like do some field work
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together and get our hands dirty. And
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those are experiences that the
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technology that we have today is making
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it easier and easier not to do and not
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to have those kinds of relationships.
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But we are [ __ ] mammals and we are
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pack animals and we need other people.
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Everything else aside that's happened
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over the last year and a half, that is
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the number one thing I think that has
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helped me is actually finding other
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humans that I get to see a couple times
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a week and
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hang out with. It's amazing.
