Coleman Ruiz
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It also represented an escape, you know, get out and go get your life out of the New Orleans and just go, just go do something.
No, it was a shock to me.
It
I just remember, this was the thought at the time.
This is like seared in my brain.
This has nothing to do with me.
That wasn't like some sophisticated view.
It was mostly, fuck this, I'm not dealing with this.
I have my own life.
They're going to have to do what they're going to do, meaning my parents.
I'm getting the hell out of here.
And Andrew, it's the word superficial.
And I carried this forward for years, which I'm sure we'll talk about here in a second.
Those binary focus areas,
Like I was literally just going after them at full steam, stronger, faster, more intensity with zero introspection, no excavation of the psychology of anything.
Just full steam ahead, like let's go.
Zero.
Which was not adaptive in the long run.
Okay.
So I applied.