In this episode, Matt Norman explores how limiting your engagement with “The Four Horsemen” — productivity, achievement, measuring up, and connectivity — can transform your mental, emotional, and physical health. He shares how setting daily and weekly “reactivity fasts” creates space for rest, presence, and renewal, much like time-restricted eating or the Sabbath. By treating reactivity limits as a keystone habit, Matt reveals how intentional rest can spark a chain reaction of healthier, more...
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In this episode, Matt Norman explores how limiting your engagement with “The Four Horsemen” — productivity, achievement, measuring up, and connectivity — can transform your mental, emotional, and physical health. He shares how setting daily and weekly “reactivity fasts” creates space for rest, presence, and renewal, much like time-restricted eating or the Sabbath. By treating reactivity limits as a keystone habit, Matt reveals how intentional rest can spark a chain reaction of healthier, more...
Reactivity Kills Relationships and Influence: The Antidote of Differentiation
Lead With Influence
13 minutes
1 month ago
Reactivity Kills Relationships and Influence: The Antidote of Differentiation
Inspired by Matt Norman’s article “What to Avoid When Building Relationships and Influencing Others,” this episode explores how reactivity—our instinct to defend, blame, or panic—undermines trust, credibility, and influence. Through a powerful story of two colleagues who respond to stress in very different ways, we see how staying calm and grounded can transform outcomes. Drawing on psychologist Edwin Friedman’s concept of differentiation, the discussion reveals why the ability to manage your...
Lead With Influence
In this episode, Matt Norman explores how limiting your engagement with “The Four Horsemen” — productivity, achievement, measuring up, and connectivity — can transform your mental, emotional, and physical health. He shares how setting daily and weekly “reactivity fasts” creates space for rest, presence, and renewal, much like time-restricted eating or the Sabbath. By treating reactivity limits as a keystone habit, Matt reveals how intentional rest can spark a chain reaction of healthier, more...
