Category: communication
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What Do Friends Really Need: Listening or Advice?
My phone rang. It was my best friend’s name on the screen. I’m not the kind of person who always picks up someone else’s call if it’s not essential for me, but I decided to pick it up, since I know it’s usually important if she made a call, and she is an important person…
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Why We Struggle to Say No: The Power of Reciprocity
Salesperson: “Free chocolate sample?”Me: “Okay.” (bites, oh they’re good!)Salesperson: “They’re on promo.”Me: “Hmm. No thanks.”Salesperson: “They might sell out.”Me: “Okay, fine.” (now $25 poorer with 3 packs of chocolates that I didn’t need and even know they existed 90 seconds ago) Familiar? Of course. I bet you’ve been in this kind of situation, especially when doing the grocery shopping. At first, we…
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The Art of Giving Constructive Criticism
Sofia was the kind of student every teacher remembered. She wasn’t the smartest in class, but she was very curious. She stayed after class to ask questions about the lecture, wrote essays on any available paper she could find, and viewed lectures as facts to apply in real life. In the first semester of her…
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The Secrets Behind Lasting Relationships Revealed! (Part 2)
In my previous post, we unpacked the idea that some couples argue often and are still happy together, because of what? That’s my friends, something we have to figure out. Well, consider this the sequel. Because the more I think about it, the more I realize: there’s a certain charm to their chaos. So, the…
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The Secrets Behind Lasting Relationships Revealed! (Part 1)
I just left Desi & Arif’s (pseudonym) apartment. It was raining a little, not dramatically, just that soft, cold kind of drizzle that feels like it’s trying to match the mood. And I can’t stop replaying it. The plate. It started with a plate. I sat there, third-wheeling a conversation I wasn’t invited into. And…
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