Welcome to the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast.

My name is Lisa A. Romano.

I am a life coach, best-selling author, YouTube vlogger, meditation teacher, an expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse.

I am a believer in the power of an organized mind.

My aim is to help people learn what it means to live above the veil of consciousness rather

than living a reactive life.

May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope as you

spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast.

So today, we will be discussing the number one sign that someone you're dealing with

is most likely going to make your life miserable.

Without objectivity, in my opinion, someone can, well, their sanity can be called into question. Because someone who lacks

objectivity is inflexible. Someone who lacks objectivity is a black and white thinker.

Somebody who lacks objectivity is coming from their ego, believes in what they believe. And due to the nature of human behavior, human psychology,

what happens is once I form a belief, I have a cognitive bias towards that belief.

And if I'm not careful, then when someone else presents me with information that is in conflict to that belief,

then my defense mechanism is to whack belief, then my defense mechanism is

to whack a mole. My defense mechanism is to shoot it down. My defense mechanism causes me to be

closed and I'm unable to hear what the other person is saying. And in my opinion, I have to question someone's level of sanity or ability to be

rational when they are so one-sided, when they live in extremes. And they are inflexible to someone

else's opinion, when they are inflexible to someone else's beliefs, unable to, and

unwilling to step into the shoes of another person and wonder, where is their perspective coming

from? That, to be able to do that represents someone who has a high level of emotional intelligence.

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