Connection Before Content with Linwood Paul & Matt D'Amour of Subtle Distinctions

Written By Modern Species

Today, you'll hear from Linwood Paul and Matt D'Amour, co-founders of Subtle Distinctions, about why you should place connection before content when starting a conversation, either in a professional setting or in your private life.

Join us to listen more about their insight as to how we have become so attuned to the 'new normal', and gently remind you that people crave connection with others.


Key Points From This Episode:

  • The show opens with connection-content role-play session.

  • Find out what connection-before-content really means.

  • How you can go about creating intentional connections.

  • How connection is built into your heart and nervous system.

  • Matt challenges listeners to see what their natural tendencies are in their professional and personal environments.

  • Lessons taken from Oprah Winfrey’s more than 36,000 interviews.

  • Linwood explains how the “new normal” is impacting your connections.

  • Matt describes what could be going on in many meetings.

  • How to approach connection when you’re worried about the receiver.

  • Hear why connection before content is a quality tip-off.

  • Linwood touches on the word “suffering.”

Tweetables:

“We are all so busy and all so stressed that it feels like we don’t have that time to slow down and check-in, and that whole half-a-meeting would be wasted if weren’t productive during that time.” — Linwood Paul [0:08:22]

“Connection before content is just what it says. It’s connecting before we dive into the agenda and tasks.” — Matt D’Amour [0:02:00]

“It might be that the connection piece is built into our heart and nervous system — we just get overruled by the to-do list.” — Linwood Paul [0:04:01]

“People are craving connection, so I think it’s important that everyone find a way in whatever platform they are engaging with, and really create intentional connection.” — Matt D’Amour [0:02:28]

“We have to really decide and take back what our natural tendency is — the natural tendency these days might be content, content, content, get it done, get it done, get it done.” — Linwood Paul [0:06:55]

“Everyone just wants to be seen and heard, and when you connect with that, that’s huge.” — Matt D’Amour [0:06:16]

“That’s a quality tip-off — when you are dealing with people who connect before content, that’s a certain quality and it tips the person off, ‘That’s who I’m dealing with here.’” — Linwood Paul [0:10:34]

“Some people say, ‘I don’t have the time,’ and others say, ‘We don’t make the time,’ and that might be the fairest thing about life: everybody gets 24/7. We all check-in and we all check out.” — Matt D’Amour [0:14:35]

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