Dan Romigh, a self-described Type A personality, struggles to slow down and listen to others. He can only manage a few minutes before his drive to act kicks in, but he's working to improve because deeper listening helps uncover real problems, like how someone's pain traces back to a missing father figure.
I am, I'm like a Type A, like if you're a color personality person, like a red person. Like I'm just, I'm gonna just action-oriented to the star system. I'm just gonna go after it. So for me, like slowing down and like listening to people tell me about their life problems, like, oh my gosh, it's terrible. But I've developed a skill to like be able to listen at least for a few minutes to them. And I need to get better at it. I do. This is like my bottleneck and from in my life is my ability. To listen to someone complain about everything in their life and not be willing to take action on it. Right? So it's tough for me, but the better I get at doing that, the better I'm able to, you know, poke at the buttons that need to be pressed and kind of figure out like, oh, like you just saw, like, oh, your parents got divorced when you were 7 and you lived with mom. And so there was no dad figure or whatever it might be. Right? Like, and then I'm like, ah, got you.
