How to Hear What People Are Really Trying to Tell You
If you struggle to read people, this will help
For most of my adult life, I couldn’t read people for toffee. I would believe their bullshit and take everything they told me a) at face value and b) very personally.
That is until I discovered the magic of one little sentence.
Judgment is but a mirror reflecting the insecurities of the person who’s doing the judging — Joshua Fields Millburn, The Minimalists
In other words, what spills out of people’s mouths often has jack shit to do with you. It’s about them, whether they know it or not.
Knowing this changes everything.
You said bomb on an airplane
You said bomb.
No, I said I didn’t have a bomb.
You said bomb on an airplane.
— Meet the Parents
Whenever my husband or I get sad about something someone has said to us, we turn to the other and say: you said bomb.
When Adam Sandler’s character is pulled off an airplane on the movie Meet The Parents, the security guard tells him he shouldn’t have said the word bomb on an…
