Daryl Davis

What am I doing?

And I narrowed it down to about five core values that everybody wants.

Between traveling with my parents as a child in the, you know,

And now traveling as an adult musician and lecturer, I told you before, I've been to all 50 states.

I've been to 64 countries on six continents.

And I can tell you this, no matter how far I've gone from our country, right next door to Canada, right next door to Mexico, or halfway around the globe, no matter who I meet, maybe around the world, they don't look like me or speak my language or worship as I do or not worship at all.

I've always concluded that every person I've met is a human being.

And as such, every human being wants these five core values in their lives.

Everyone wants to be loved.

We all want to be respected.

We want to be heard.

We want to be treated fairly and truthfully.

And we want the same things for our family as anybody else would want for their family.

And if we can learn to apply those five core values or any of those five values,

When we find ourselves in an adversarial situation or in a culture or society in which we're unfamiliar or uncomfortable, I'll guarantee you that your navigation of that society, that culture, that situation will be much more smooth, much more positive, and much more productive.

And so that's what was happening.

Because these people have been interviewed before, but they didn't leave.

So that is how you talk to people, more so than what you say to people and how you listen to them.

And when I say respect, it doesn't mean that I respect what they're saying.

I'm respecting their right to say it.