7 What Goes On inside Your Head?
Our “performances” in conversations are deeply dependent on what is going on inside our heads. We cannot be appropriately humble if we misread or misinterpret the situation we are in and either ignore or do not know what is appropriate in that situation. We need to see how our minds constantly create biases, perceptual distortions, and inappropriate impulses. To be effective in Humble Inquiry, we must make an effort to learn what these biases and distortions are and figure out how to avoid them when they interfere with relationship building, helping, and sense making.
To begin this learning, consider this simple model of processes that are, in fact, extremely complicated. Our nervous system simultaneously gathers ...
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