Tim Ferriss
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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?