So if 10 people are sitting around a circle, and one says they had trouble parking their car, and everyone else tells some perfectly mundane, time-filling story about a universal experience, you would genuinely thing that’s time well spent? You’d spend an hour mostly listening to people talk about “yeah, once time I tried to parallel park, and it was a small spot, took me 3 tries.”?
And you’d rather NOT use the time to ask the person about their experience? Find out how it made them feel? Find out what they learned from the experience or how it differed from “yeah, parallel parking. That’s sometimes not easy.”? How that moment of time helped them grow as a person?
Sure, not applicable to every single story, but I also don’t listen to podcasts where it’s 4 dudes on a panel saying the same thing over and over and over and over. “Yes, that also happened to me, because it happens to everyone.” Why not seek to learn about someone?
“I understand what you say and will now try to connect with you by sharing my similar experience”. It’s just how communication and most humans work
So if 10 people are sitting around a circle, and one says they had trouble parking their car, and everyone else tells some perfectly mundane, time-filling story about a universal experience, you would genuinely thing that’s time well spent? You’d spend an hour mostly listening to people talk about “yeah, once time I tried to parallel park, and it was a small spot, took me 3 tries.”?
And you’d rather NOT use the time to ask the person about their experience? Find out how it made them feel? Find out what they learned from the experience or how it differed from “yeah, parallel parking. That’s sometimes not easy.”? How that moment of time helped them grow as a person?
Sure, not applicable to every single story, but I also don’t listen to podcasts where it’s 4 dudes on a panel saying the same thing over and over and over and over. “Yes, that also happened to me, because it happens to everyone.” Why not seek to learn about someone?