Tim Ferriss

And published that, stayed off of all social media.

I told my team, I was like, I don't want to see any feedback unless it's from people I care about and it's positive feedback.

I was like, I'm too, it's too raw.

Like, I don't want to, internet's a nasty place, right?

It's a full contact sport where every fucking village idiot has been given like a halberd and a mace, right?

It's not pretty.

So I was like, I'm staying off of everything.

But the opposite happened, didn't it?

Well, I ignored everything except the only people who could reach me were my close friends.

So what happened?

I would say somewhere between 25 and 35% of some of my oldest, closest friends reached out and left me the most heart-wrenching voice memos and voicemails you can imagine about their own abuse that they'd never told anyone about.

Fucking horrible.

I had anticipated bad behavior on the internet, so I stayed away.

I did not expect such a high percentage of my really close friends to confide in me.

That was really hard.

But I have a lot of, for whatever reason, capacity for that.

With friends, with people I care about, I have a lot of capacity for handling that.

So...

Fuck, man.

How did it feel?