Alison Wood Brooks

It sucks. You have a narrower range of things that you're allowed to say that will be seen as appropriate or as a value add. So then you're less likely to speak. And if you never speak, you're not actually bringing value. Nobody ever gets to know you and what you can do. It's this crazy double buy. Our job is to try and learn as much as we can about each other, regardless of status.

But you can't eradicate it. It's what we're built to do. And status striving, right? We all want to ascend and maintain.

But you can't eradicate it. It's what we're built to do. And status striving, right? We all want to ascend and maintain.

But you can't eradicate it. It's what we're built to do. And status striving, right? We all want to ascend and maintain.

Yeah, food and safety and attraction and reproduction.

Yeah, food and safety and attraction and reproduction.

Yeah, food and safety and attraction and reproduction.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When you say that people's reactions are sometimes not what you expect, in what direction are the reactions surprising or have been surprising?

When you say that people's reactions are sometimes not what you expect, in what direction are the reactions surprising or have been surprising?

When you say that people's reactions are sometimes not what you expect, in what direction are the reactions surprising or have been surprising?

Can I tell you who I talked to about this?

Can I tell you who I talked to about this?

Can I tell you who I talked to about this?

Orna.

Orna.

Orna.

You hang out with Orna. Orna Goralnik from Couples Therapy. So this chapter on apologies opens with this story from Couples Therapy, one of the couples on the show. Which one? Tashira and Drew. They're from, I think, season one or two. They're amazing. She got pregnant and they started living together. They were in a really rocky place. Yes. I think it was in the pandemic phase of the show-ish.