Here is a modest but liberating truth. Our capacity to change emotionally is fairly limited. The basic wiring we arrived with, the moods, the sensitivities, the reflexes, is very hard to rewire. But there is a real opportunity in a different direction. We can become far better at communicating who we are. Rather than simply acting out our grumpiness on a Sunday morning, we can explain it, and warn the people around us that a difficult patch may be coming. We can be honest about the bad mood we cannot shift, and reveal what we know we cannot change, doing it in a way that is calm and kind and gives others enough notice to arrange themselves. We may not be able to change much. But we can get remarkably good at describing the parts of us that are hard to live with.⁠ ⁠#education #inspireothers #mindpower