A short monologue by Kim Zoller that highlights how habitual reactive behaviors (e.g., yelling at children or coworkers) obscure our authentic selves. The speaker uses a personal-call anecdote to show the problem, argues that such reactions don’t serve us, and recommends changing brain wiring through stopping, breathing, meditation, and other practices to become less reactive and more fully ourselves.
I was on a call yesterday, and someone was so upset because they yelled at their kids. And last week they yelled at someone they work with, and they said, what do I do? I'm so upset. And someone said, it's okay, everyone does that. And I would say, yes, everyone does that. And yet it doesn't serve us to do that. And these are habitual behaviors, reacting. So how do we change that? We change that by changing the wiring in our brains. We change that by stopping, by breathing, by meditating, by doing what we need to do to be more of who we are and not reactors in this world.
