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28 Jan 2024 Lenny's Podcast Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)
“And then I think the other one, which I think about often is I like to say, "Make generous assumptions.”
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- 28 Jan 2024
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…State over story. And then I think the other one, which I think about often is I like to say, "Make generous assumptions. " And by that I mean in any situation, what is the most generous story that I can tell of this person, of this situation? Not kind of naively fabricating something, but usually there's a spectrum of I can assume that they're a bad person and they did this thing out of spite, or maybe they had a bad day, maybe they have a lot of emotional debt. There's there's many stories that can be told. And I usually try to have a practice of telling the most generous story that I can. I like that a lot. Another way of describing that is just assume good intentions, which I often think about.…
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