Joe Opio

You like versus showing up as your real self with not your best clothes, with not your best vibe, with not your best energy, with not just you, not terrible, just you.

And then I said, yeah, but then what if they don't like you?

And then you said, well, then they don't like me.

That's what I'm saying.

Is don't care is like the wrong phrase sometimes because it makes it seem like, because you're a caring person.

Do you get what I'm saying?

Yes.

Like if someone said, Joe, you make me uncomfortable, you wouldn't be like, I don't care what you think about me.

That's not the same thing.

No, but that's the trap though.

Because the thing is, no matter when people go like, I don't care.

the next logical progression of that is they turn into jackasses.

So they turn into maybe Trump.

So when you have the ability not to care, people abuse it.

Does that make sense?

So they go like, I don't care what anyone thinks, and they think that's a license.

to be cruel, to be callous.

So the trick is in avoiding that trap.

You don't care about what people say or what people think of you, but you still care enough to be a civil human being.

Does that make sense?