Nir Eyal
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I said, hey, mom, happy birthday.
Did you get the flowers I sent?
And she said, yes, I did.
But just so you know, thank you for the flowers, but they arrived half dead.
And so don't order from that florist again.
To which I responded something like, well, that's the last time I buy you flowers.
And that went over about as well as you expect.
Not so good.
My wife was on that call with my mom as well.
And she turned to me afterwards and she said, would you like to do a turnaround on this?
What's a turnaround?
Well, my response was...
My response was, no, I don't want to do a turnaround to this.
I don't need your mumbo jumbo, touchy feely, hocus pocus.
I need to vent.
We are told that when someone offends you, you have to tell them how you feel.
You can't keep it bottled inside.
You can't hold back your feelings.
You have to tell people how you feel.
So I needed to tell my wife why my mom was being way too judgmental and why I was right and she was wrong.