BRX Pro Tip: Learning from Everyone
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton with you. Lee, let’s talk a little bit about when people disagree with you, they agree with you, how to process that. I guess the umbrella would be, you know, how to learn from everyone.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:18] Yeah. I think, the only thing worse to me than thinking everyone who disagrees with you is wrong is thinking that everyone who agrees with you is right. We can learn from everybody. And it’s a trap, I think, to just surround ourselves with people who think like we think and agree with everything that we think.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:40] So, the next time that someone you respect says something that you disagree with, just take a beat and imagine whatever they just said is the God’s honest truth. And just try to really understand it from their point of view of why they believe this to be true and try to see it through their eyes. I think that that’s so important in today’s time to really empathize and try to understand the other person. And they must think what they’re saying is true.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:18] Most people just don’t say insane things for no reason. There’s a kernel of truth in there for them that they really latch onto. And the more you can kind of understand that, you just might learn something. You may not agree with them, but at least you’re going to understand where they’re coming from and maybe see the logic behind why they think the way that they do. And if you can do that more often, you’re going to broaden the diversity of the folks around you and you’re going to learn a lot more, a lot faster.
