Mark Manson

Freud's office is famously super weird.

It's full of, like, all sorts of Egyptian artifacts and, like, weird ancient texts and all this stuff.

And Freud just sits there and stares at him for minutes.

Like, multiple minutes go by, and this poor college kid is just like...

Oh, my God.

Like, what is what what is happening?

So it's like it's like this old Viennese guy staring into your soul.

And so just to make small talk, Gordon Alport decides to talk about a little boy that he saw on the tram on the way over.

And he noticed that this little boy was obsessively cleaning the areas of the train around him and complaining to his mother about how dirty everything was.

And he thought this was really interesting and that Freud would find this interesting because there's clearly some sort of psychological thing going on with this boy.

And like Freud's into psychological things, right?

And Freud just stared at him and said, was the little boy you?

Gordon did not take this well.

It's very Freudian now.

Yeah.

He did not take it very well.

He kind of freaked out.

He got... Actually, he got very offended and he left Freud's office in a bit of a huff.

And as he made his way back across Europe, he kept thinking about the encounter and he really just rejected this whole notion that there was anything in his unconscious that had anything to do with who he was.

He believed...