Akbar Gbajabiamila

And when I stopped playing, I had an identity crisis because that's where I hung my hat.

Yep.

Right.

I can't imagine playing in the NFL and then not going through an identity crisis and going through some type of depression before you were into your next thing.

How did that work?

The depression is deeper and deeper the further you go along.

From high school, you've only technically committed maybe six, seven years of your life into this identity.

And then by the time you get to college, that ramps up to about 11 years.

And then if you make it to the pros, on average, it's about two and a half years.

Let's say you played four or five years like I did.

Now you're looking at 17, 19 years of your life was kind of really put into this window of you've dedicated everything.

And they say this, that...

What NFL players, professional athletes in general, when they leave the game and through identity crisis is the same thing that happens when older people retire.

And when older people retire, they've been on this job for 20 years, 30 years.

And then when they retire, they go, wait, wait.

Nobody needs me the same way.

They're not counting on me.

What do I do?

My kids are grown.

And you're going through this entire identity crisis.