Abraham Lincoln wisely said, “I don’t like that man, I must get to know him better.” Our judgments say more about our own mindset than they do about who we’re judging. It’s easy to project unflattering motives on others when their behavior reminds us of something unpleasant from our past. By trying to better understand them, we often find they’re much more complex than our critical opinion may have assumed. Softening and opening to them can reveal aspects of them that we even admire. When we find that, our tolerance helps us to…
Better admire ourselves.
