Adam Lane Smith
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1,798 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Adam Lane Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They don't do much vasopressin bonding at home solving problems together.
They solve them alone.
Turns them into incredibly productive workers who solve all their problems alone.
Don't complain.
Don't whine.
Don't bring drama into the workplace.
They are locked into their office working 14, 16 hours a day without complaining.
They don't even ask about overtime and they don't take vacation.
They work like dogs.
And they rise through the ranks up to VP.
I had one gentleman who rose to the ranks through VP and burned out so hard that two weeks later he had a mental breakdown and quit with a one line email and everyone was devastated.
They said, how could this have happened?
No oxytocin, no GABA, no vasopressin, no serotonin.
All that's left is unregulated cortisol.
And when you rise through the company, that's something we call the cortisol ladder.
It gets narrower and shakier and darker, and you're farther away from everybody else around you.
So you have no security.
All that's left is dopamine, which diminishes because you can only get so many bonuses, so many vacations, so many attaboy emails, so many awards in the company, and they all diminish in the hit that they give you until you get to the top.
Unregulated cortisol, no relationships and no dopamine hits anymore.
This is where people flame out.
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