What To Do When No One Understands You

What To Do When No One Understands You The human brain likes to minimize effort, says psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson – and unfortunately, that often means other people aren’t making much of an effort to understand you. As humans, “we want to spend as much effort and energy trying to understand something as we have to, but not an ounce more,” she says. “We very unconsciously rely heavily on what we expect a person to be like…stereotypes, even ones you don't believe, can influence how you see another person.”