There is something very personal about being rejected or ignored that cuts us deeply.

Do you find yourself interrupting, cutting off, or talking over somebody out of passion or enthusiasm?

Given that I mostly work for private events like company holiday parties and corporate banquets, there is a good chance that every single member of my audience will continue interacting with everyone else in the room in their daily work

emotional perspectives are not rational. The feeling of not being heard or understood is supremely powerful.

True magic is not a trick. You can live every single day of your life with a magician’s mindset: create shared experiences through impossible moments of connection.

Take my name, “Brian.” A quick Google search reveals that there are 1.2 million people in the United States alone with the first name Brian, and 1.3 million with the last name Miller. Even put together, there are over 5,000 people in the U.S. with the name “Brian Miller”—there were seriously 3 of us in my high school at the same time. Yet we are ve

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Nicholas Epley calls it the “illusion of insight” in his magnificent book Mindwise: the confidence you have in knowing the minds of close friends and loved ones “far outstrips your actual accuracy.” Sometimes we’re right, but not as often as we think.

It is a universal desire to feel understood. But while so many of us feel misunderstood by our friends and family, very few of us try to make others feel understood.