It’s also stuff such as I don’t like sports, music, fashion, or small talk, and in high school and college made zero effort to pay attention to them and it cost me socially. I realize now I should have at least pretended to like them to have had a better social life.
I figured out when I was about 15 years old that I had to keep on things I didn’t care about to earn points socially and it helped me a great deal and powers what I do as a writer and talk show presenter.
It’s also stuff such as I don’t like sports, music, fashion, or small talk, and in high school and college made zero effort to pay attention to them and it cost me socially. I realize now I should have at least pretended to like them to have had a better social life.
That makes you a fully-conforming geek, as you undoubtedly know. Welcome to the club :-)
I figured out when I was about 15 years old that I had to keep on things I didn’t care about to earn points socially and it helped me a great deal and powers what I do as a writer and talk show presenter.