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We Don’t Know What Someone Else Is Going Through | Raymond Lavine

With Raymond Lavine

September 22, 2026video

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This brief insight reminds us that we rarely know the full extent of what another person is experiencing. When someone acts abruptly or in a way that feels personal, it's often a reflection of their own struggles, not a direct attack on us. Cultivating this understanding can shift our reactions from frustration to empathy.

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Raymond Lavine (00:00) I we don't always know is we don't always know what somebody else is going through. So if somebody Stefan Lindberg-Jones (00:04) Mm-hmm. Raymond Lavine (00:04) is, you know, is doing something to me, I don't know what they're going through. Maybe they had an argument. Maybe they had having a financial issue. Maybe they were told, you know, they have, you know, 10 days to live. So you never know, you know, or people are just in a hurry. And so, you know, try to think of, you know, what's happening in somebody's other perspective to say, well, they cut me off or they did that is, you know, just to think maybe, maybe they're having an issue. And so they're so absorbed with that. They're taking it out on others that they're, that they're abrupt. So it usually isn't personal.

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