The Importance of Comfort Languages

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I love the idea of comfort languages and I also just want to emphasize. It's really important to understand your own comfort languages so that you can communicate them to the people you care about. If you understand, oh, I really like problem solving, then you can tell people that or,Oh, I don't like when people are too optimistic when I'm trying to feel better and I'm set. So that could be another comfort language. Giving space is a nicer way of saying leave me alone. Yes. That could be the the null love language if you don't have the five. But no, I think that's a good point. Some people they need time to process their emotions

What's the best way to help someone who's going through a difficult situation? What are the four states of distress? What are "comfort languages"? How can we introduce more nuance into our everyday thinking habits? When gathering information and forming opinions, how do you know who to trust? What's the difference between intelligence and wisdom?

Kat Woods is the co-founder of Charity Entrepreneurship, a startup incubator for effective altruist charities. It provides training, seed funding, and the other things necessary to kickstart an effective nonprofit. Previously, Kat co-founded Charity Science Outreach, a meta-organization that raised nine counterfactual dollars for high impact charities for every dollar spent. Subsequently she co-founded Charity Science Health, a direct poverty charity that received multiple grants from GiveWell and has served hundreds of thousands of families in India. You can find more about Kat at her website or on Twitter at @kat__woods.

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