{"id":39,"date":"2020-09-16T03:51:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T03:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.jal.mybluehost.me\/\/?p=39"},"modified":"2021-02-01T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:26:25","slug":"brilliant-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/brilliant-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">When someone agrees with us, we think they\u2019re brilliant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">However, when someone disagrees with us, we\u2019re often quick to label them as ignorant, immoral, or an idiot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">When we disagree with someone, the hard part is to recognize that if we were in their position, we would probably see things differently. <em>Now who\u2019s brilliant and who\u2019s the idiot?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">There is an abundance of resources on how to get someone to agree with you. What if instead we focused on getting curious, listening deeply, and suspending judgment so we could better understand and practice empathy with one another?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">How might that enhance our brilliance and enrich our own thinking and worldviews? How might that help us move beyond simplistic views of one another and divisiveness to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com\/post\/68194563177\/sonder-n-the-realization-that-each-random\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sonder<\/a> so we can work and live better together?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">When someone agrees with us, we think they\u2019re brilliant. However, when someone disagrees with us, we\u2019re often quick to label them as ignorant, immoral, or an idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,15,5,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change","category-collaboration","category-communication","category-community","category-empathy","category-leadership","category-trust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}