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This Is How I Mastered Communication with Andy Puddicombe

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Navigating a difficult conversation starts with learning to explore the views of others and having an open mind to their perspective. Want more Andy? Try Headspace today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone is Kaysonger. Just a reminder that you can listen to all of our

0:06.1

podcast ad-free on the Headspace app. Space Studio. Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Head Space, the Friday morning.

0:29.0

I don't know if you ever have a situation in your life where you want to have a conversation

0:35.3

with someone but it's not an easy conversation maybe it's your partner could be

0:40.8

a parent child maybe someone at, but there's a conversation that kind of needs to be had,

0:47.0

but it's just difficult to kind of get into it.

0:50.0

And very often in these situations, one person has one opinion perhaps we have another

0:54.5

opinion and so part of our fear or trepidation is knowing that we're not

1:01.1

necessarily going to agree because if we necessarily going to agree.

1:03.0

Because if we're going to agree with the person, then there's no real fear, right?

1:06.0

We have no hesitation at beginning those conversations.

1:09.0

And I was chatting to a friend the other day, and he was chatting with his partner about the

1:15.5

potential of moving to a different place, different city, maybe even different country.

1:20.6

And anyway they were having this conversation I should point out by the way as my

1:24.2

friends always do to me this isn't my friend like this was me at home and my wife we

1:28.3

weren't having this conversation this actually was my friend anyway he was at home having this conversation.

1:33.9

He said it was really difficult to navigate

1:37.2

because he had a very strong feeling

1:40.1

and a very strong opinion about it.

1:42.4

And he couldn't really imagine changing that opinion.

1:46.6

Equally he knew that his partner that they had a very strong opinion.

1:51.0

So how do you go into a conversation like that with a genuine sense of

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