Patience

- And now for the third and final element of presence and that's patience. What can you tell us about patience here? - Well, trust is really about helping us receive what others have to say, and patience is creating that space. It's what we're offering in return once we kind of turn down that inner voice, and so patience is about not interrupting. It's about not jumping in to finish the other person's sentences. So even if you are very close with that person, and think I know exactly what they're going to say jumping in sometimes can feel like a bonding experience, but sometimes can feel like, again, you're kind of just taking the mic away from the other person. So patience is really about teaching yourself to wind down in a conversation as opposed to winding up. So some of us perpetually are kind of sitting at the edge of our seats in conversation. We're always ready to chime in, and it's a way of connecting,…