How to Have Better Conversations: Learn to Argue Less and Listen More with Jefferson Fisher

Time is a great sifter of things. Like what matters right now rarely matters tomorrow. You think about what you were stressed about three days ago. You probably can't remember. But in that moment, it was everything.

You had to get this done. And a great test for that is thinking of time. where you wanted to respond to somebody over email because you thought their email was snarky and you type out a response and instead of sending it you don't and you wait and then the next day you read it again you go I don't really need to send this welcome to the one you feed throughout Time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like, garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think ring true, and yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking.

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