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Radio Headspace

When Frustration Makes Us Forget the Person

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A small moment of friction can quickly turn into something bigger. What begins as frustration can quietly shift into a story about who someone is and why they’re wrong. In this episode, Rosie explores how easily we lose sight of the human being in front of us, and what it looks like to pause, soften, and come back to understanding instead of judgment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Headspace Studios.

0:12.4

Hey friends, it's Rosie.

0:16.6

Welcome back to Radio Headspace.

0:20.6

So the other morning, I walked into the office that I share with Tori. Welcome back to Radio Headspace.

0:21.1

So the other morning, I walked into the office that I share with Tori, tea in hand, my brain

0:27.2

still booting up, and I immediately knew what kind of day it was going to be.

0:33.1

Because Tori was on the floor, not like peacefully stretching or doing some kind of mindful morning mobility

0:39.7

routine. No. He was under his computer desk. Half his body wedged between cables and a tower,

0:47.1

going back and forth between the PC like it had personally betrayed him. There was clicking, there was sighing, there were expletives.

0:58.8

The kind of low muttered frustration that starts as,

1:02.7

come on, and gradually turns into,

1:07.0

are you kidding me?

1:08.8

All before 8 a.m.

1:11.6

Morning pleasantries were exchanged.

1:14.6

And then I said, with the calm confidence of someone who has never had to fight with the printer driver in her life,

1:22.6

why don't you just get a Mac?

1:25.6

He didn't even look up. He just sighed, perhaps too much this morning.

1:31.6

But in that moment, I realized this isn't about computers. This is relationships.

1:39.8

Because sometimes in relationships, one person is a Mac and the other is a PC.

1:50.2

Hear me out.

1:51.5

A Mac person tends to want things to be smooth, efficient, perhaps even aesthetically pleasing,

2:00.0

minimal drama, you know?

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