Go slow. Because the results we want aren’t produced by something that’s easily measured. Not at first anyway. The measurable results come, but they come later. First we have to be the kind of person that the kind of person we want to to work with, wants to work with. Patient, thoughtful, mindful, considerate, gentle.
It’s a heart rate and a blood pressure just moments before it becomes a rate of speech and a furrowed brow leaning forward. So, if we can bring ourselves to call it neuroscience and acknowledge that it’s something embedded in our neurology, can we go a small step further and call it what it really is?
Energy. If you can feel it in your body, then the people around you can feel it, too.
Be slow. It’s the fastest way to all the things we want to measure.