I'd say parenting is the one that really made a difference.
Not because I had a strike of common sense, but because I actually cared very much and started to listen to others. I didn't want to be horrible to my kids.
So "starting to listening to others". Every troll has a kernel of truth. And sometimes what you consider a troll isn't one in the first place.
Which is very apropos those days, where everyone is confined in their own echo chambers by all those clever social media algorithms that always favor short term bliss.
And yes. Trying to explain things to my kids enables me to understand those things way deeper.
Not because I had a strike of common sense, but because I actually cared very much and started to listen to others. I didn't want to be horrible to my kids.
So "starting to listening to others". Every troll has a kernel of truth. And sometimes what you consider a troll isn't one in the first place.
Which is very apropos those days, where everyone is confined in their own echo chambers by all those clever social media algorithms that always favor short term bliss.
And yes. Trying to explain things to my kids enables me to understand those things way deeper.