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Adam Lane Smith

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1176 total appearances

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Digital Social Hour
Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

And I did all the work myself because I had no idea how to use an assistant.

Digital Social Hour
Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

I drove that woman nuts.

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Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

She sat there for six months waiting to get fired because I wouldn't give her tasks to do.

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Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

And the whole time I'm thinking, well, this is kind of cool.

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Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

Like, it's cool to have someone to chat with once in a while.

Digital Social Hour
Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

I had no idea.

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Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

She'd asked me what to do.

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Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

And I would just assume I had to do everything myself because how could I hand a task off to her?

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Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

It wouldn't make sense.

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Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

Like, she wouldn't do it the way I did it.

Digital Social Hour
Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

That ended at six months when I finally said, I guess I don't need you.

Digital Social Hour
Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

And she goes, I guess you don't.

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Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

My wife was furious when I told her that.

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Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

She said, what the hell is wrong with you?

Digital Social Hour
Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

You're working 80, 90 hours a week, and you're paying your assistant, and you aren't even using them.

Digital Social Hour
Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

Do you not know how?

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Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

I got another assistant.

Digital Social Hour
Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

My first task for that assistant was tell me how to use an assistant.

Digital Social Hour
Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

And I had to learn manually.

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Adam Lane Smith: Attachment Styles Are Ruining Modern Relationships | DSH #1751

This is a skill set, just like I told you earlier.