Kindle Notes & Highlights
at our core, we are still tribal creatures who crave connection.
our ability to create healthy and genuine human connection in our lives is the direct result of the human connection we received as a child: “The attentive, loving behaviors [of caregivers] grow the neural networks that allow us to feel love, and then act in loving ways towards others. If you are loved, you learn to love.”
Using this as a metaphor, even if a sibling, parent, or relative doesn’t feel the same way about your recollection of an event, it doesn’t mean your feelings and version of the event aren’t valid.
not everyone is for everyone.
A life of success without service to something beyond ourselves eventually becomes hollow.
Service isn’t just about the time we take to show up and do a charity project, and it isn’t the sacrificing of money in a donation. It’s challenging ourselves to be others-driven in a self-serving world and infusing that mindset into how we think about communicating and connecting everywhere.
We all are humans here; we all have our own suffering.
Your voice has the power to change the life of someone on the edge. Communication isn’t actually about you; it’s about the person you are trying to connect with.
You are human before you are any of the labels the world puts on you, from your job title to your roles as mother or daughter, for example.
When you’re alone at the end of your life, your children grown up, how you will be remembered will be dictated by the seeds of human connection you have sown in your life.
