Now It Makes More Sense! How Context Creates Connected Conversations

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Each of us is a unique mixture of life experiences, and we bring all of those experiences into our conversations with others. In today's episode, Tony explores the role of context in conversations. Tony shares an example of how one word can dramatically change the meaning of an entire paragraph from the book "On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You Are Not," by Dr. Robert Burton https://www.amazon.com/Being-Certain-Believing-Right-Youre/dp/031254152X/ (https://www.amazon.com/Being-Certain-Believing-Right-Youre/dp/031254152X/) and he shares cultural differences from the article "15 Fascinating Cultural Difference Around the World," from https://www.cheftariq.com/lifestyle/cultural-differences-around-the-world/ (https://www.cheftariq.com/lifestyle/cultural-differences-around-the-world/%C2%A0) Tony also uses his 4 Pillars of a Connected Conversation to show the importance of curiosity and context in conversations. -Go to http://tonyoverbay.com/magnetic (http://tonyoverbay.com/magnetic) right now to sign up for Tony's free marriage workshop held Wednesday, November 3rd at 6 PM PT!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to episode 293 of the virtual couch. I am your host, Tony Overbay.
0:06.2	I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified mind-blab coach,
0:09.6	writer-speaker, husband, father, for Ultramarathon Runner and creator of the Pathback,
0:13.1	an online pornography recovery program that is helping people reclaim their lives from turning to pornography as a coping mechanism.
0:19.8	Go to PathbackRecovery.com if you want to
0:21.5	learn more about that. There's some group calls that keep gaining steam and the program itself.
0:26.5	I don't know, we've got a nice group of people and people are just changing their lives.
0:29.7	They're becoming the people that they always wanted to be. So that's pathback recovery.com.
0:33.8	And a huge thing. And I will go so big on this because I got this episode out on a Monday morning instead of the usual Tuesday morning.
0:41.2	Because on Wednesday of this week, Wednesday, I am stalling as I look at a calendar, Wednesday the 3rd, 6 p.m. Pacific time.
0:51.3	My good friend Preston Pugm. and I, Preston is the one who helped me create the
0:54.8	Magnetic Marriage course. We are going to do a marriage, magnetic marriage workshop. Again, that's at 6 p.m.
1:03.0	Pacific time. So go to tonyoverbay.com slash magnetic and you will find out more information on how
1:09.4	you sign up to attend this free event.
1:12.4	And it is a free marriage workshop and we are going to cover so many things about how to make
1:18.7	your marriage more magnetic. And there's a little video on there on that page that you'll get
1:23.7	to that I highly encourage you to just take a quick look at because the more
1:28.2	that we talk about the magnetic marriage course, the more people that have gone through the course,
1:32.5	I am telling you you don't have the tools by nature. And that is meant by no disrespect. There's
1:39.6	nothing wrong with you. But you really don't have the tools. We don't come from the factory with these
1:44.6	tools to be heard is to be healed. And these four pillars of a connected conversation that we
1:49.9	teach in the program. And there is just so much more. And so people typically have to get to a pretty
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