Life involves compromises.

They’re not things you “have” to do, though they’re choices that show empathy and understanding for another person.

This evening my partner came to me and said she really wanted to see a band that’s coming to town in November this year.

I could tell in her voice though that she was hesitant to tell me, almost like she may be shutdown.

Obviously, I was curious and asked who the band was.

She responded detailing it was The Lumineers.

With which she quickly followed up by saying that I wouldn’t like them as they’re not my type of genre.

I then asked her how badly do you want to see this band on a scale of 1 through to 10?

10 out of 10!

In which she said almost instantaneously.

I then proceeded to buy two tickets by the end of the phone call.

It’s not the fact that the music isn’t my “taste” or my “type”, that shouldn’t matter at all.

The importance is putting yourself in the other persons shoes and deeply feeling what they feel.

Regardless of whether the gesture is reciprocated, it is the underlying principle of truly providing rapport.

A sensation us humans crave on a significant level.

I know firsthand what it’s like to see live my favourite music artists live, and I want her to feel and experience that too.