Brett Cooper

But people look at me like an alien for just trying to have a conversation.

We are human beings.

We are supposed to connect socially.

This is also a reminder that social anxiety is a mental issue, not a personality trait.

Say that louder for the folks in the back.

It is not something you're supposed to just say, oh, I have social anxiety, so I'll just never talk to anyone.

No, you are meant to work through it like a phobia.

It is a challenge.

It is not something you are supposed to just accept.

I went from being the most socially anxious person I've ever seen to the point where I was scared to leave my bedroom to being quite literally the only one to ever initiate a conversation in public no matter where I am.

Over-reliance on technology to form social and relationship bonds instead of face-to-face has and is still actively ruining our society.

I love this generation for a lot of reasons, but we are easily the weakest socially, and that is putting it mildly.

Again, I feel like I've done so many episodes at this point talking about dating and how, in my opinion, so much of it goes back to the fact that we don't know how to date.

Obviously there are political layers and men versus women, all of those things.

But I think in large part, women do not know how to flirt or receive flirting or receive the signs from men.

Men don't know how to flirt.

Like we're all just floundering around like a bunch of-

I don't know what kind of animal, but we're jumbling around blind.

And it is even true when we're talking about making friends.

Now, even though all of that is true, from everything that I see on social media that I experienced in my own life, people are still yearning for in-person real connections.