Rachel Friedmann

I recently retweeted Zen Habits tweet “If you dislike or are angry at a person, you don’t understand him.”

So why I am writing this post? I keep wondering why there is so much conflict between people who interact and communicate on a regular basis – friends, coworkers, family, etc. More than a few of my friends have been dealing with angry or controlling bosses and are at a loss as to what to do. One of these friends visited from out of town this past weekend. Maybe if we all try to put ourselves in each others shoes literally, we may find that there our issues outside our control that are at play and need to be considered. Unfortunately, this is much easier said than done.

As I keep pondering this idea, here is an additional thought from Mario Batali, who was featured on The Daily Show last week.

“Generally cooks that yell at other cooks, or chefs that yell at their cooks, are expressing their own self-loathing for not having prepared their staff to do the job they knew was coming at them.”

Or maybe the yelling is just self-loathing…