Welcome to Leadership Now with Dr. Aaron Rock, hosted on Beachhead Media and other podcasting platforms.

Aaron has served as a pastor, chaplain, denominational leader, professor, and writer, and he is a desire to help others think Christianly about all of life.

On this show, we discussed the nuts and bolts of theology, church life, ethics, apologetics, culture,

politics, and other issues to help you lead better now.

I am your host Jesse Leframbois and we are back into our series that we have called

deadly personal traits.

And so last week we debuted this series.

If you didn't check out that episode yet, I would highly recommend it.

And so in each one of these episodes, Aaron is going to be exposing one, maybe two deadly personal traits that

hinder relationships, hinder joy, and even success in Christian ministry. And so the purpose of

this series is not to make people feel bad about themselves, but it is to make people maybe more conscientious and aware of some

of these deadly personal traits and to help them to uproot these things in their lives

that really are holding them back in all areas of life.

And so today's deadly personal trait is over reactivity.

So Aaron, to get the ball rolling on this discussion, do you think

you could define what you mean by that? And then maybe take a few minutes to explain why you

would say that it is problematic. Happy to. I went back and forth on whether I should call this

hypersensitivity or touchiness. I went with overreactivity. There's other words that

could capture the same concept. Really, I'm speaking, Jesse, to those that may struggle a bit with

hypersensitivity to criticism or perceived criticism or constructive feedback or challenges that they experience in life.

We could also call this fragility or being thin skinned.

Sometimes people manifest this by being high strung, touchy, not touchy in the sense of liking to touch people, but touchy

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