How To Communicate Effectively With Difficult People: When to Tell the Truth, When to Push Back, and Why Kindness Isn't the Same as Being Nice | Sharon Salzberg

Hey everybody, welcome to the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Today we're talking about Buddhist communication strategies. You've heard me say this before, maybe, uh, but I think about it all the time. The fact that we're talking to each other all day, every day, most of us, and and yet very few of us are ever taught.

how to have successful uh communications. Uh it turns out the Buddha uh had a lot to say about this and we're going to talk about the Buddhist uh communication strategies with uh Sharon Salzberg. We're gonna talk about such questions as um how do you deal with difficult people? Is it ever okay to gossip? Uh how can you be kind without being a doormat?

Um uh are white lies ever okay even if they're motivated by kindness? There's a lot of uh juicy stuff in here. Sharon Salzberg uh is a legend in the um meditation community. Uh she's one of the co-founders of the Insight Meditation Society, which is a very well-known now 50-year-old uh Buddhist uh retreat center in Barrie, Massachusetts.

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