Chuck Weisner

Thanks for having me.

It's a pleasure to be here.

There are definitely keys that we're going to talk about.

And it's also important to know that when you're in a difficult conversation, both parties have to be willing to start with truth.

And if we can't have a foundation of truth, then you're gonna have a very, the conversation will remain difficult.

There's opinions and there's facts and there's emotions.

And we get all of those mixed up, right?

And they all get discombobulated and jumbled up in our brain.

But if we realize that my opinion is just my opinion and it's not the truth, then we can slowly, we can say, okay, what's driving my opinion?

And we sort of can open our hand and go,

This is why I'm thinking how I'm thinking.

This is what my standards are.

There's four archetypal questions in the book.

This is what I'm worried about.

This is my concern.

Here's what I'd like.

We can start to just open our hands and say, OK, I have an opinion.

Let's dance with that.

Let's see what we can learn from each other.

That's a very different conversation with fists and fists coming at each other.