Ryan Leak

I stayed in a relationship for years because I was afraid no one else would choose me.

Another person wrote, I'm successful on paper, but I feel like a fraud in real life.

Another person wrote, the people who think I'm the strongest have no idea how close I've been to quitting.

Now, think about this for a second.

These aren't just, you know, random people.

I mean, technically they are random people.

But what I want you to understand is that these are people that could be sitting next to you right now.

These are people that you could be in meetings with in an hour.

These are people that you could be having dinner with tonight.

Like you just, you just never know.

Like,

Whenever you're experiencing a difficult person, I want you to start imagining, man, I wonder if they've got a difficult season that they're going through right now.

Because now what you're looking for is the why behind the what you're experiencing with this person.

Like the minute you heard me say a difficult person, somebody popped up in your mind, you know, your coworker, employee, boss, family member, whoever it was.

And it's easy to reduce them to a moment.

You could just say, well, they're just negative or they're hard to work with or they've got a bad attitude or they're a pessimist.

They're always like this or just like their mom, just like their dad.

It's easy to sort of write people off.

But what if you're just experiencing one scene in a very large story that you don't know?

And I can just tell you what I've learned is that when people feel unseen, they act out.