Max Lugavere

It doesn't like they'll ask you a question and then it doesn't seem like they're receiving your answers.

They might be interested, but it just seems like they're always...

they're never satisfied with the answer that you're giving them.

So you feel like with every response, you're just throwing yourself again and again against a closed door.

And it's like, they're not aware of it, but they're energy vampires.

And I've learned over time to more, I guess, rapidly or efficiently identify those people and like not give them any energy.

Yeah.

How do we respond to those people?

I like that.

And often it's like, you're not even changing.

You're just revealing more of yourself.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, it's a really kind of low-key denigrating way to address.

It's a low-key neg towards somebody when you say you've changed because the subtext is not you've changed for the better.

The subtext is you've changed for the worse.

So it's not a nice thing to say to somebody ever, but it's also not a nice thing to receive.

no exactly i get that um occasionally on social media uh from commenters that you know might have um been following me for some time and then around 2020 when i became a little bit more outspoken about some of the socio-political cultural things that i was seeing going on in the world around me i became more outspoken about my perspective on you know what i was seeing out in the world and um because that was uh you know there was a bit of um

it was a different way for, I guess, some people who had followed me over the years to think about me from, you know, going from somebody who was just talking about like macros and, you know, protein and nutrients and brain health to somebody who was suddenly opining about stuff that was going on, you know, beyond the field of nutrition.

I would sometimes get from these low effort, low investment commenters like, oh, Max, you've changed.

And my response would be like, no, I actually haven't changed at all.