“I feel like everybody wants to be listened to”

So, the question about estuaries and how saltwater and freshwater mix, and that those plants and animals can adapt to both conditions. And I feel what helps me adapt, because I do adapt to different environments a lot, I have like a very big range of people that I am connected with. Some people that are highly educated and other people who are not, people who have money, people who have no money. I went through — I think I’ve gone through a lot of changes in my own life where — had a pretty decent amount of money as a younger person, then I went through a long period of time where I had very little and worked and worked to make ends meet. And now, I’m more at a balanced stage in my life. 

But I feel like everybody wants to be listened to. And everybody deserves that dignity — that you that you would extend to anyone. And, I think listening and caring, and really listening, that’s probably the superpower that I have. Is, is to ask people questions and sometimes a question might make somebody go, “Huh. I don’t I don’t know if I haven’t been asked that before.” But I — I feel like that helps me navigate no matter who I’m with. 

People universally want to be listened to. They want to know that you’re with them, that you’re following them, that you don’t have to be like them, but they want to be understood, and I think that that is something that — I may not understand anybody right away — someone right away but if I try and continue to try, I feel like that opens doors in a big, big way.

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