June 4, 2025
In the wonderful TV series “The Bear,” which is about a family-run restaurant in Chicago, when a staff member wants to indicate they truly understood what […]
June 19, 2024
The tremendous relationship expert, John Gottman, has theories and data about why relationships are successful. One of the concepts he talks about is related to when […]
November 30, 2022
When a friend or family member calls me and they want to talk about a problem or issue that’s bothering them, I offer three options. One, […]
August 17, 2022
If you reflect on who the friends are that you have, that you feel most close to, I bet that they are people who listen well. […]
August 3, 2022
When I was a kid, there was a cartoon called,” The Hillbilly Bears”, and one of the bear’s grandpas would mumble and grumble when he started […]
August 25, 2021
In his excellent book Listening with the Third Ear, the analyst Theodor Reik makes the point that sometimes people who seem to be seeking advice or […]
October 7, 2020
Mark Twain said,” There are two kinds of people in the world: one kind separates people into two kinds of people and the other kind doesn’t.” […]
July 1, 2020
In the 2008 movie “Get Smart,” the agent and spy Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, is a bungling but well-meaning spy (who usually gets things done actually), […]
February 25, 2020
I don’t know if you’re one of those people who, when you see something in your everyday environment like a product label or bill board or […]