Leading with love – for strangers and at home What if we started out assuming people liked us? What if we led with connection and joy and kindness?
What if we first looked for what makes us similar instead of what we perceive makes us so different? Those are the questions that were racing through my brain as I got into my Uber with my driver Lal from Pakistan.
He was polite but cold. I could feel a separation. I felt as if he assumed I wouldn’t like him or, at the very least, not be interested in him as a human.
Could be perception, sure. It was early on a cold, Swedish morning. But I felt as if he felt like a second-class citizen, despite the fact that he was doing me kind service.