Mónica Guzmán

And so getting people to weave their story is amazing because a really cool thing happens to your mind too.

Your mind gets out of the mode of just evaluating the goodness or badness of ideas or even the logic of them.

And it goes into a mode of sort of playing someone else's movie in your head.

And it goes such a long way toward that person feeling heard

And you actually hearing them and actually kind of stepping into their shoes a little bit.

And that unlocks so much.

So that's a wonderful, a wonderful thing.

And then the other is, honestly, the most powerful question that I've asked as a journalist is just simply, what are your concerns?

And then you can ask the flip side of that.

The brighter side of the same exact question is, what do you hope for?

If this happens, what do you hope to see?

And either way, that gets you a sense of where people put meaning onto events and policies and ideas.

It's where their meaning comes from, what their values are, what their value hierarchies are.

And man, that just that just brings to life a person.

Oh my gosh, what a fun question.

I am trying to be much more present with my children.

The times when I have my phone and my attention is divided and they're around, or my daughter comes up to show me her latest drawing, she draws and draws and draws all day long.

And then I snap at her a little bit, even just a little bit, because I'm trying to finish this email.

It's

oh it just kills me inside and it's every time it does that a little piece of me dies and so i recently took all my social media and my email and took it off my phone and i put it in like a secondary old phone that's just glued to my desk and doesn't leave and when i come upstairs from my downstairs office i'm with my family