Chris Williamson

14-year-old you thinks that you're cool.

Yeah.

What do you think 14-year-old you would say about you?

What a cool concept of what would 14-year-old you think about adult you as basically the ultimate gauge of whether or not your life's gone.

What do the people in your industry think of you?

Not even actually what your parents think of you, but what would 14-year-old you think of you?

Hey, with AI, you might be able to cement a 14-year-old version of you that you could just check in with as a performance coach every so often.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sort of don't care enough about the way that they're contributing to those around them, the opinions of people, the egotists, the narcissists, the obsessives that don't take outside input.

But then there's another group of people who care way too much.

About what other people think.

And I get the sense that a lot of people that rise to the top of their careers are actually in the latter camp rather than the former.

That they're trying to please.

They're trying to, if only I can make myself enough, then the world will see.

And is this okay?

Am I okay?

Do these people, do I look okay to them?

And are they responding to me in the way that I want?

Gold medalist syndrome.

You can speak adult in the right room, but you're pretending, you're LARPing as an adult, you're cosplaying as an adult, but secretly there's still a child inside.