You weren’t born normal. You learned to fit in. — Transcript

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1. 0:00Adulting is the process of getting to
2. 0:02become the person you always were. You
3. 0:04have through the process of
4. 0:05socialization and becoming an adult lost
5. 0:07so much of yourself in the process. Your
6. 0:09voice, your identity, your style,
7. 0:11everything about you has been stripped
8. 0:12away. And if you look around, the people
9. 0:15you hang out with, you're going to be
10. 0:16like not that different than them,
11. 0:17right? We There's safety in numbers, we
12. 0:19understand that. When you're the lone
13. 0:22wolf, you die. You don't have the
14. 0:24protection of the pack, so we conform.
15. 0:27We become normal. And when we want to
16. 0:29insult somebody like, "You're being
17. 0:30weird, you're not normal. Can you just
18. 0:32be normal?" And the word normal means
19. 0:34average. Nobody wakes up one morning and
20. 0:36says, "I'd love to be average today." If
21. 0:38you used to be like some crazy punk
22. 0:39rocker, just be that. And then what
23. 0:42happens is then you become complete. And
24. 0:44then there's something energetically
25. 0:47that's really powerful that there's a
26. 0:49calmness and a groundedness about you
27. 0:51that when you walk into a room without
28. 0:53saying a word, without calling any
29. 0:54attention, people feel your energy and
30. 0:57they just want to be closer to you.