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Strokes Aren't a Game, Right?
Strokes are just like basic units of social interactions under his framework. But then the ways that people attempt to obtain them, right? Like it's almost like money, in a way,. It sort of gets at the idea that there are honest and straight forward ways to get money and then there are duplicitous ways to obtain money. When games you're getting them through kind of illicit means through, you know, illicit in the sense that you're either hurting others or hurting yourself in an emotional way. I think for a very long time something that I subconsciously did was select very strongly against people who had a need for strokes, or at least had a needs for strokes from me