David Brady Helps

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If you're building something for someone.

Try to put yourself in their shoes.

You're not a leader seated atop a thrown in a high castle somewhere in a distant land, looking down upon your gentry, and telling them what's needed.

Or maybe you are?

If you're building something for someone else:

  • Walk a mile in their shoes.

  • Understand what keeps them awake at night.

  • Know the things that make them come alive.

  • Have a vision for what they're trying to achieve.  

  • See the world through their eyes.

  • Develop an impression of how they came to be where they are today - what was their journey?

  • Know who they are for! Who are they trying to help?

  • What is their "something better"?

You can't speak to someone until you learn to see them.

That requires empathy.

It's simple.