Thank you for joining me on this third podcast episode about what I've learned over the last 10 podcast episodes. What I want to talk about is that everyone has a story to tell. Every interview that I've conducted, I've realized that everyone's been through some pain.
Everyone's been let down. Everyone's been lied to, abandoned when they needed somebody the most. I've realized that some are still healing. Some are on the journey to healing. And I think some may never fully find their healing in certain areas. Maybe it's something that we have learned or they have learned to just get by, but maybe it's never going to be the same. Maybe that's okay as well.
I don't know that we're really on this earth to figure everything out or to understand everything that happens or to be able to put a neat little bow and tie up every loose end. I think sometimes it just is. Maybe that's okay. Maybe that's all part of the journey as well. What it did challenge me on, though, is that my default response to people should be care and understanding, knowing that they have human struggles, hopes, aspirations, deep disappointments.
And maybe if I have a negative interaction with somebody, it's not a reflection on myself or something to be taken personally. It could just be where that other person is coming from. And I think if we drop all the pretenses and just try to understand that people are people and that they're bringing their individual trauma, their good, their bad, the things they overcome, the things that they're struggling with.
If they've brought all of that to the table in every interaction, perhaps that is the best that they can do at that point in time, whether it's disappointed you or not. I'm not sure what to do with that data point yet, other than to try and look at people in a different light. Offer them and myself more grace. Look at myself and say, well, you did X, Y, and Z. And maybe that wasn't the right decision. Hindsight 2020. But look at all that was going on around you at that point in time.
maybe that was the best that you could do at that point in time so i suppose it's a mixture of grace understanding for other people but also for yourself and i think that's the challenging part I found that most people are pretty willing to have deep conversations and don't really enjoy the topical conversations about the latest sports game, the weather. Maybe they want to have a deeper conversation.
and maybe avoid some of the superficial. I know it would be tough as an icebreaker. Hey, what is your deepest fear? But I think once you get to know somebody, they don't want to have those surface-level conversations for anything other than perhaps icebreaking. And I think that's part of what has made this podcast so unique, at least from my experience, is that we've all been able to take that guard down and just share some things about what we've learned along the way.
to be open to having those conversations and expressing those things that might not be in the normal day-to-day conversations. So I think the challenge I would have for everyone is try to get to know people, give them some grace, give yourself some grace, understand the background information that goes into
something that is happening in their life. But also give that grace to yourself. Thanks again for listening. Appreciate it. Feel free to go back and take a look at any of the back catalog. I think right now this is probably episode. 15, 16, something like that. Thank you for listening. If any of these episodes have been of value for yourself, please feel free to share them with someone else who might need them. Thank you.