When it comes to relationships (work or personal), if we are frustrated about something but don’t actively seek to change it, then we’re choosing it. It is easiest to complain about it (but that’s a form of letting ourselves off the hook). It’s harder to admit we have the option to change it (and that if we don’t, then we’re choosing it). And it is hardest to take steps (often many steps) to change how we engage with another person. If we aim to change, the first step is to mind the resonance to dissonance ratio.
***
Some Things I Read Last Week:
- NYTimes: The Legacy of Y2K Panic “Each generation has its own vision of the apocalypse. For the millennials, it’s always been the computer. Our destruction would surely come from this box. And our anxiety over this certain outcome began with Y2K.”
- The New Yorker: The Ultra-Wealthy Who Argue That They Should Be Paying Higher Taxes “She realized that the luxuries she and her family enjoyed were really a way of walling themselves off from the world, which made it easier to ignore certain economic realities.”
What I’m Working On This Week:
Identifying the uniquely best way to connect with the people I encounter.