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🗓️ 26 May 2024
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0:00.0 | So we're going to practice some self-awareness together here to start our time together. |
0:04.6 | Okay. So I'm just going to ask you to be really honest with yourself. You don't have to tell me. |
0:08.2 | You don't have to tell anybody and save your elbows. Okay. This is just you. |
0:11.8 | This is no one else. Okay. Don't think about any else. Just think about you. |
0:14.8 | I want you to answer, where, when, or with whom do you tend to have a short fuse? Okay, like, like where, and what environments, |
0:24.4 | okay, like, where is it? Is it at work? Is it at home? Right. Where are those environments? When, |
0:30.5 | you know, is it when you're trying to get out of the house, when you're stuck in traffic, when |
0:34.2 | times are stressful? And then with whom? What people, right? Is your kids, your spouse, |
0:39.7 | someone that you work with? Like, who is it with those people that you tend to have a short fuse? |
0:45.0 | Like your fuse is just shorter. Your capacity for patience is just a lot less. And when you're there |
0:53.0 | and when you're in those moments and when you're in front of |
0:54.7 | those people, you're a lot more likely to lose it. You're not more likely to lash out and get angry |
1:01.7 | or to try to get even or to blow up or maybe even get up and walk away. Another way to ask it is |
1:08.1 | where, when, or with whom do you tend to lose your patience? |
1:13.9 | Because I'm a great leader, I'm going to go first, okay? |
1:18.7 | I, I, I, it's actually shocking how many answers to this question that I have. |
1:24.5 | But one, I'll tell you about this happens to me all the time when I'm driving. |
1:28.2 | Okay? I am one of those people that press the horn before I press the break. It just feels appropriate. |
1:35.6 | And I have this illogical way of thinking that my honking teaches people how to drive better. |
1:41.4 | I take it as a personal responsibility of mine to show people how to do better. I take it as a personal responsibility of mine to show people |
1:46.1 | how to do better. And my horn somehow communicates that information. It doesn't escalate anything. |
1:51.4 | It helps, clearly. And so I found myself in a situation and my wife, Julie, is always that, |
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