Elias Weiss Friedman

They're not judgmental of others.

They don't care about what you look like, what kind of car you drive.

They lead with trust.

They don't lead with doubt.

And so as humans, people with, we have an ego we have to struggle with, and we are often at odds with one another and what, for whatever reason, those things exist.

I think they don't always serve us.

And by being around dogs, by seeing the way that they behave, even without spoken language, we become more like them.

And I think.

That was a good thing.

Yeah.

And when you say peering into your soul, it's like a lot of it comes down to direct eye contact.

Like, throughout your average day, you can probably, even with the people closest to you, the amount of, like, direct eye contact you have gets less and less every day.

You have five seconds with a barista.

You have...

30 seconds with your wife.

Whereas dogs are incredibly generous with their eye contact.

You come home, they stare into your soul, like they're saying.

And I think as humans, we crave that and we're missing that more and more.

The ability, as we work remotely, as we're on a podcast over a Zoom channel, and this counts for something, but it's not quite the same as being in the same, be right next to someone and a dog.

The way a dog looks at you is just,