Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.

I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about being normal.

Hello, what's up, you guys? It's Saturday here in Arizona and the weather is beautiful,

which I feel very grateful for because right now I have girls that I coach in Texas that are boiling

their water as I speak so they can drink it right now.

So shout out to you teens in Texas and all of you that are being affected by the weather

across the country this week, crazy times. So hope you are staying safe. The podcast topic today is

one that I actually feel very strongly about.

And I wanted to address it on the podcast because it is something that all of us are doing,

but we don't even realize we are doing it. It is this subconscious desire to be normal or fit in or conform so that we're similar to everybody

else. And this desire is especially strong in the teen brain. Okay, so for right now, I just

want you to think about your brain like a laptop for a little bit. Okay. And if you buy a laptop from a computer store or a lot of you right now are even doing

schoolwork on Chromebooks you received from your district.

But when you received that laptop in your hands, it already came with pre-programmed software.

And I'm not a computer savvy person, so hopefully I explain this

right, okay? But anyways, when you get your laptop, it comes with pre-programmed software already on it.

And these programs are put into the computer to help you do things you need to do for school.

And these programs were great on the

computer as long as your computer can meet all your needs like turning in assignments, emails,

researching on the internet, listening to your Zoom classes, etc. If there's something that you need

your computer to do that it doesn't have the software for, you can add

software or other apps to help you do other things. But the point is, is that it already comes set up

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