A Different Perspective

This habit is about listening to others with empathy and understanding before trying to communicate your own point of view.

It's about putting yourself in someone else's shoes and trying to see things from their perspective. When you seek first to understand, you're more li...

We should work to distance ourselves from our own problems by adopting a fly-on-the-wall perspective and act as our own advisors.

Another distancing technique is to pretend that our decision is someone else's and visualize it from his or her perspective. B...

• Seneca tells us that we should each have our own Cato - a great and noble person we can allow into our minds and use to guide our actions. It doesn't have to be an actual person, just someone who, like Seneca said, can stand witness to our behavior. Someone who can quietly admonish us if we ...