Many people secretly believe that other people should just know what we’re thinking. When your co-worker doesn’t acknowledge your contribution in a meeting or when your client appears to be ignoring your carefully crafted advice, it’s natural to feel slighted. The narrative that forms in your head is compelling and feels true: they don’t care about you, they don’t respect you, or worse, they’re deliberately undermining you. But in these situations, your focus is on the wrong participant in the meeting or conversation.
The narrative focusing on others is almost always wrong. The fact is that they simply have no
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