A short spoken piece by Brian Johnson advising that strong relationships are built by responding to small everyday requests or "bids" from partners. He argues that trust is earned through consistent attention to mundane actions (like grabbing an item or taking out the trash), which leads partners to be more open to candid feedback.
Is one of the most practical things you can know is you got to respond to bids from your loved ones. The naive versions of us think that a great relationship is the expensive holiday trip or the gifts and all the big things. No, no, no. It's the tiny things. When your wife or your husband or your significant other says, honey, can you grab some of this on aisle 14? Or take out the trash or mundane thing, he calls that a bid. And good relationships are ones in which the individual responds to that bid more often than not. Earn trust, partner, so they're more open to you giving them the candid feedback. But start with the basic blocking and tackling simple things.
