How to Turn Contempt Into Compassion

The Hoffman Institute has discovered that contempt is the number one precursor to divorce. We talk about owning our response instead of othering people, and I'm going to tell a story on myself. A woman in the speaking industry who's an icon in our industry said casually that she felt the president was the best president we ever had. Now Marie, I didn't share that opinion. And at the end of the phone call, I was thinking, I don't know if we're ever going to talk again because I couldn't believe that someone I cared about and respected admired believed something that was the polar opposite of what I thought. So this person and I decided that politics was a quick sand conversation