Hello, DeGens.
Is social anxiety holding you back?
Do you find that people ostracize or take advantage of you?
Do you feel that you don’t get what other people are getting naturally?
Then you came to the right place.
This substack will:
Teach you the basics of social interactions
Help you get rid of depression and master self-introspection
Transform you into what you were meant to be
But first, here’s a little bit about me.
My childhood was, let’s say, complicated.
My father was diagnosed with schizophrenia right after I was born.
All I remember as a child were memories of my parents fighting and taking it out at me. After four years, they divorced. My mother ‘divorce raped’ my father. All of the sudden, I was left alone with a person that never worked a day in her life.
Not only did I grow up without a father figure, but my mother had to work all day to feed us. It’s safe for me to say that I was not raised properly.
I struggled to get along with kids in school, got bullied, had fights with other kids/teachers, and so on...
That was my childhood.
I was never taught how to do anything. I felt thrown into a world which I didn’t understand in the slightest. The only thing I had was my PS1 and a crappy laptop. Everything I “knew” about life was self-taught. The internet was my only source of information. My “role models” were YouTubers. My teachers were forums.
Obviously, a 4-year-old kid teaching himself how to do anything is a recipe for disaster—and it was. I sucked socially. The only thing I had going for me was being a smart kid (I learned how to read at 2 and a half years old by watching kid’s shows like Sesame Street).
I won’t get into more details, but that should give you a basic understanding of my childhood and adolescence. I lived in a bubble and the internet was my medium of escaping reality. With time, I developed an ego—everyone was wrong except me. My attitude towards people was toxic. Everyone hated me. My mental health was hitting rock bottom.
Fast forward to 19 years-old Leviathan.
I became an assistant professor at my university. Soon thereafter, I had to give my first lecture. I was in for a surprise...
In my mind, I had finally escaped the realm of the ‘stupid kids’ that went to parties and only thought about sex. I felt that University was my place and that fellow academics would listen to me and absorb my grandiose knowledge.
Boy, was I wrong…
For reference, in my country, college tends to be free. So we have people up to 60 years old studying with kids that just came from high school.
Just picture little Leviathan in front of 40 people with an average age of 40…
It was a mess. I was left in shock. I didn’t understand what was happening. People just ignored me and disrespected me, and I didn’t know why.
Then it hit me—I was the problem.
I stumbled across a subreddit called “The Red Pill” which changed my worldview completely. I understood why people bullied me, why women didn’t pay attention to me, why I could not make any friends, etc. Everything started to click.
I finally accepted that I was a pathetic loser. And I refused to stay in that situation.
The problem was… I had to start from scratch. So I did exactly that.
Like everyone else in this space, I was, and still am a “turbo autist”. I treated my self-improvement journey like a puzzle. I had to discover what was wrong with me and how to fix it. Step by step.
And so it began, my journey of learning how to live all over again.
Because I treated it like a puzzle, I asked myself all the questions. I battle-tested every strategy. I threw myself into the world and practiced day and night. I made a million mistakes and documented everything. A lot of friendships were made and lost along the way.
Now, I can comfortably say that I’ve become a socially competent individual.
This is why I’m so confident in the methods that I’ll use to teach you how to do what I did.
What are we going to cover here?
The reasons why you suffer from anxiety and how to get rid of it
Myths about depression and self-improvement that will hold you back
The basics of social interactions
How to achieve a high level of Self-introspection
How to become confident in yourself
Psychological traps you have to avoid in your journey
How to learn from your mistakes
How to develop Frame in social interactions
How to tackle other mental health-related issues