Competitive Social Calibration | Therapy Session

If you'll indulge me, I've got three kinda connected experiences from high school-

Ooh

... that I wanna use.

Is this the unaffiliated years?

[laughs] The unaffiliated years, indeed.

Uh, [laughs] so maybe this can kind of like set the tone of a few different, like, attitude-type things that we can explore relative to this game.

Um, so for listeners, if you don't know, like, I ran track and cross country in high school.

Um, and I had a pretty evolving relationship with competing-

Mm-hmm

... through those years, uh, and particularly as I calibrated it against the experiences other people were having as well.

Yeah.

And so the first anecdote that I guess I wanna share from that is going into my sophomore year of high school, I had done track in the spring.

I'd been training all summer for cross country, and I don't know if you remember this, but, like, when we were in high school-

Yeah

... y- uh, all students were required to take a gym class where they actually would test your physical capabilities, like-

They don't do that anymore?

Uh, th- maybe they do.

Hmm.

I don't know if they still do, but at least at that time they did-

Yeah

... where it's like, "How many pushups can you do? How many sit-ups you, can you do? How many pull-ups can you do? How fast can you run a mile?"

Yeah.

And what they did with that I will never know-

They-

... 'cause everybody just got the same-