I’m not spending a lot of time. I’m spending some time on working with people on their conversations outside of work. And there I see it translating. There’s no difference in terms of the skillset and the things that will hurt you. So as an example, let me give you a negative example first. Because I do want to emphasize the consequences of avoiding this call to honesty. So one of my coaches. I’ve got a lot of coaches. I need a lot of help, Matt. She was telling me a story about her mom. The story went something like this. Her father passed away, and her mother had been divorced from him for, I’d say, 30 years or so. Somewhere Soon after he died, her mother confides in her and says, he was a love of my life. I divorced him, and I only I now realize that I had all these concerns and complaints about him, but I never told him, and I divorced him. I squandered having 30 years with the love of my life because I didn’t have the conversation. I was like, Okay, I need to That’s very heartbreaking. I have prepared Olga, of course, to have conversations that she knew were going to be difficult.
See, Olga, she hates anything that’s funny. Any funny as I mean, she hates it. And she wanted to have a conversation with her family member that she knew was going to be difficult, and I prepared her for it, and the conversation went great. And then her family member said to her, so I could tell Todd prepared you for this conversation, right? I was like, What do you mean? There’s something about… What we don’t realize is that part of the reason that people are so difficult and unreasonable is because of us.
