André Duqum

Not looking back.

Yeah, I could imagine how that would really stretch your capacity for empathy when people go through challenging traumatic events.

You mentioned a moment watching your mentor at Harvard, um,

And how I'm sure that probably goes hand in hand.

I just love to hear a little bit more how your ability to be present with somebody.

I think so many of us in our lives, when somebody comes to us with a problem, we have this tendency to try to give a fix and a solution right off the bat.

Instead, when there's a wounded dog who's traumatized, often you just need to be able to sit in their presence for a little bit, like allow that to be in the room and be

How have you learned, what have you learned about the importance of being present when you're trying to really support somebody?

Yeah, well said.

What's one thing that you fundamentally changed your belief on over the past decade, especially when it comes to working with individuals?

If you had 60 seconds to share a message to everybody listening, one important thing to know about the mind, what would that be?

Well said.

I think you do such a great job at articulating the reasons why our mind is our friend.

And I keep coming back to what you said about the compassionate curiosity, like that little bit of openness that we bring to ourselves and others, I think makes a world of a difference.

Yeah.

I'm curious with the whole context of this conversation now with your new book, What's Going Right?

Is there something that you feel like we haven't touched on that would be important to you?

Well, Dr. Kansi, I think it's been so amazing to see you step more into the author space and sharing more on podcasts over the past few years.

And I think your empathy shines through super strong in the conversations and how much you actually care to support people.

And it's really amazing.