1: What we feel impacts what we see.  And hear.

“People who are scared take in a scene differently,” David Brooks writes in his book How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen.

“Our ears, for example, immediately adjust to focus on high and low frequencies—a scream or a growl—rather than midrange frequencies, which include normal human speech,” David notes.  “Anxiety narrows … continue reading

1: “If I want to know you,” David Brooks writes in his book How to Know a Person, “it’s moderately important that I know what you think, but it’s very important that I have some sense of the flow of what you feel.”

Yesterday, we began our exploration of empathy. “Empathy is a set of social and emotional skills,” David writes. “Some people are more naturally talented at … continue reading