Getting Along With Others at Home and Work (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Is a co-worker driving you crazy? Learning styles expert Cynthia Tobias explains that the way we process information impacts us both at home and at work, and illustrates how our friends and family may perceive the world very differently than we do. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. |
| 0:26.9 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:30.6 | How many of you know someone who is definitely not like you? |
| 0:35.0 | You know they don't think like you. |
| 0:41.0 | Did you also know this? They don't want to think like you. You know they don't think like you. Did you also know this? They don't want to think like you. |
| 0:48.9 | We're learning to appreciate our different thinking and learning styles today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 0:55.5 | And thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. John, I am really excited to share this practical message from Cynthia Tobias today because it's got advice that can help improve communication in all of our marriages and with |
| 1:02.2 | our friends and coworkers. Cynthia gave this talk at a Focus Chapel in July, and our coworkers |
| 1:08.4 | were talking about it for days afterward, and that's a typical |
| 1:12.2 | indication that this might make a great broadcast. It really is. You can kind of sense when |
| 1:16.6 | somebody brings that kind of a message, and it's got some traction with the people that are in the |
| 1:21.0 | audience. Well, Cynthia Tobias is an author, speaker, educator. She's probably best known for her |
| 1:26.3 | groundbreaking book published with focus on the, called The Way They Learn. |
| 1:31.2 | And what we'll hear today is from her latest book, The Way We Work. |
| 1:35.3 | And here now is Cynthia Tobias speaking to the Focus on the Family staff. |
| 1:41.3 | Several years ago, my husband and I would receive a monthly community newsletter from a large corporation in our area. |
| 1:48.4 | I looked forward to it for only one reason. |
| 1:50.9 | Every time it came out on the front page, it had a little box, and it had a tip, a tip that somebody could use for something like one month. |
| 1:59.7 | It was how to recover data lost |
| 2:01.9 | on your hard drive. And then it would explain very briefly, and then at the bottom it would have |
| 2:06.7 | a statement that says, if you want to know why this works, turn to page six. My husband, Jack, |
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