Why we build Quippy.
Most adults neva get curriculum for di conversations wey dey shape social life. Quippy na di daily practice room wey we for like make e dey. Below na di six tins wey we believe pass.
- 01
Social skill na muscle, e no be personality.
E dey grow wit reps. E dey waste away wen reps no dey. Nobody born wey sabi di warm exit or di honest no.
- 02
Most adults dey learn am by accident.
Birthday parties, sleepover, di bus wey dey carry pesin go house. Thousands of ordinary sets, wey nobody plan.
- 03
Some of us no get dose years.
Sickness for family. Childhood wey pesin spend for inside house. Pandemic between fifteen and seventeen. Di reps no happen.
- 04
Di gap no be say somtin spoil. Na reps wey miss.
Notin spoil for your body. You no dey behind for personality. Na curriculum wey nobody give you, na im you dey behind.
- 05
E fit build back di same way.
Di maths wey build di muscle for everybody else still dey work for you. Short social reps, on purpose, dis time around.
- 06
E neva too late.
Twenty-three. Forty-nine. Seventy-three. One hundred and six. One hundred and fifty-six, if we wan carry everybody. To start late no mean say your life go small.
If loneliness don ever reach you sotay you begin ask yoursef, for your quiet corner, whether somtin really spoil for your body,
I wan tell you why I build Quippy.
Between fifteen and twenty, for plenty different reasons, di years wey dey build social muscle for most pipo no build am for me. By di time wey I look up, I don dey years behind for one skill wey nobody ever tell me say na skill.
Notin bin spoil for my body. Na di reps no happen. Di years wey dey build di muscle for everybody else, na somewia else I spend dem.
Long list of small tins dey wey I miss: di late-night kitchen tok, di argument for bus stop, di friends-of-friends wey I never meet. None of dem matter by imsef. But all of dem join together become di gym wey I no enta.
So I decide say make I treat am like skill. Practice am. Watch di tape. Run am again.
Quippy na di structured version of dat waka. Short social reps evriday. Real scenes. Honest read on wetin land and wetin you shake body for. Di conversations wey you dey play again and again, you go practice dem bifor dem happen again.
If you reach adulthood wit gap for dis skill, two tins na true. Di gap real. E no be your fault. And e neva too late. Di maths wey dey behind di curve wey dey below na di same maths wey work for everybody else.
I dey build dis one for di me wey be nineteen years wey no get di words yet. And for you.
Reps dey add up. Di first one go look like notin.
Di same maths wey build di muscle for everybody else still dey work for you. Three milestones wey you go dey watch, wey dem plot from di real experience of pipo wey waka dis road on purpose.
Everytin dey feel like say you rehearse am.
Di first time wey you no go draft di text four times.
Di muscle don be your own. You no go even notice again.