Dealing with social anxiety

The speaker discusses the concept of being a popular loner and shares their personal experience of living as one. They express their dissatisfaction with this lifestyle and believe that most people who aspire to be loners have not truly experienced it. They describe two contrasting lives - one where they are alone all the time, playing video games and feeling socially anxious, and another where they are good at talking to people, have friends, and attend parties. They emphasize the importance of being socially active in today's world. They offer advice on overcoming social anxiety by getting out of one's own head and learning to talk to people, even if it's just about their favorite topic. The speaker reflects on their own growth in college and encourages others to do the same. okay so on the internet I've been hearing about the popular loner for a while and I find it weird like how there's a lot of people like who wants to be the lone wolf or just like be on their lonesome but like as somebody who's been through something like this like who's lived a life of a popular loner like the loner part it should really be emphasized because like for most like like 90% of your time you're going to be alone like in your room playing video games watching TV eating a bag of chips with a bottle of Mountain Dew that's how that's how it is like as someone who's lived that life it sucks it really really does because I like not even like a lot of people that on the internet nowadays like they haven't even like live life or went through the experience like to cause them to live that way so I'm gonna pitch to you like two lives in one in one life like you're all alone all day every day in a room playing video games like you don't have any friends like you don't even have a girlfriend or like that like you find it hard to speak to people like you have social anxiety and then you got the other life like where you're good at talking to people and you have like you have friends like you have a girlfriend like you go to parties and stuff like that like you know how to like be actively social throughout the world that throughout the world that just can't stop talking like in the world we live in nowadays you have to be able to talk and I myself like as somebody that struggles with talking to people it sucks it really really does so how to like how to overcome something like this like number one yeah you have you have to just get out your own head like then like just get out your own head like as somebody who's going through something like this like I'm telling that to myself too so don't even don't even think of it like that I'm being mean or something like that like cuz I'm telling this to myself too cuz like even like when I first came to college like I was really really bad at talking to people like it was like the person I am today like you wouldn't even recognize that person a few years ago but until I started like talking to people like not even really talking to people I just learned to talk to people like you don't have to talk of a storm every single day all day every day with every single person you see like no like you're gonna just wear yourself out and it's just gonna take even more of a toll on your social anxiety or like being an introvert like that it already has so just in any case just learn to talk to somebody like you don't have to talk of a storm like like here's a pointer like even like talk about your favorite topic talk about your favorite topic it just like just talk about that cuz like it's not that hard for someone like me like who's came this far in life