Book I'm Reading: "The Earned Life" by Marshall Goldsmith

Over time, choice avoidance, at least for the small choices that don't matter to me, has become one of my highest priorities. I pretty much agree to make time for any stranger who makes the effort to reach out to meet me, telling myself, "It won't make me dumber."

I cannot improve on Telly's definition. "Authentic empathy," he says, "is doing your best to be the person you need to be for the people who are with you now."