Tools for Connecting
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
To me this exemplifies the art of human connection and understanding. If you know how you think and you understand how others think and process and then connecting and communicating becomes so much more joyful
They say that the definition of experience is "stuff happening to you that you wish to hell happened to someone else"
I've had lots of experience and I've largely learned that through other peoples lessons
I have benefited by using tools to establish peoples preferred mode of communication based on their values and how they wanted to be communicated with
There are too many tools to mention here, however some of the best tools are listed here with links
Using these tools has helped me lean into the quote from Sun Tzu
Colorcode - Personality Science
#connecting #communication #profiling