The Best Way to Avoid Arguments With Your Adult Kids

Today on Ultimize Discover, you're getting a short practical sample from the Ultimize universe. Use this on its own, take one idea and apply it today, or go deeper at ultimize.com. Ultimize is the world's largest personal development podcast, audiobook, and online learning network. Ultimize. The next time your adult child says something that frustrates you, try this. Say nothing for 5 full seconds after they finish. Don't fill the silence. Don't soften it. Don't pivot to advice. Just wait. In those 5 seconds, most adult children will say something more honest than anything they said before it. That one technique, applied consistently, will change more conversations than almost anything else in this course. Hi, I'm TJ Walker, your instructor, and this course is a part of Ultimize, The world's largest personal development podcast, audiobook, and online learning network. It's built specifically for parents in the top tier of American wealth who are navigating the most underserved challenge in personal development. By the way, quick question for you. Have you ever noticed how easy it is to consume content and how hard it is to actually do anything with it? I mean, you can listen to 100 episodes, read 10 books, and your habits are exactly the same. That's the gap most people never close. So if you're listening to this and thinking, yeah, I want to actually improve, go to ultimize.com. We've got free courses there for you, either on communication skills or building better habits. And it's designed to get you to actually use what you're learning, not just hear it once. No cost, no catch. Just go to ultimize.com and start. Ultimize.