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Back to EpisodesDon’t Argue With the Version in Your Head
Published 3 weeks ago
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Have you ever been in a conversation where someone says one thing, and almost immediately you start preparing your response?
Maybe you focus on one badly chosen word or read more into their tone than they intended.
Someone questions a decision, and we hear disrespect. Someone hesitates, and we assume indifference.
Before long, we are no longer responding to what they actually said, but to the meaning we added.
Very often, we are no longer responding to what the person actually said. We are responding to the meaning we placed behind it.