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Posts tagged: empathy

The feeling of not reaching one’s potential

Not long ago, I found myself struggling to create art, under a self-imposed burden of “should.” I thought I had it in me to do more—and better—than I was getting around to doing. I felt I had unrealized potential. What difference might it have made, if I had really known that many, many people feel […]

Reasons and trust

Imagine that I make a choice and that you don’t know why I acted as I did. It’s quite possible you may never have the opportunity to discover my reasons. If you recognize that I did have reasons, even if you don’t know what they were, I experience your response as trust, and you open yourself to learn. […]