I know I’ve really been riding #empathy a lot lately it is just filling a lot of my thoughts and so it plays in to todays show it is just a little slice of some of what I’ve been noticing lately. 

My empathy kicked in somewhere around the 3rd or fourth time I heard this guy, younger end for being in a bar, start in about “my buddy (Kyle/Chris/Steve) said…” This guys had at this point gone a full 45 minutes without contributing a solid thought that he was wiling to attribute to himself.

Now I know I’ve seen this as a more common tactic amount much younger people. The attempt to dilute any negative reaction to an idea by attributing it to someone else. But as I gave it real thought I find myself as always looking into the psychology of peoples decision making. 

YOU ARE SO SCARED OF THE NEGATIVE JUDGEMENTS OF OTHERS  that you would rather have minimized credit for a thought provoking insight, or maybe even a BRILLIANT idea. That