I also find it can help with communication. That is, when I decide I want to talk to someone about the annoying behavior (which I don’t always, of course) the opening tack of “I notice you doing X, which is something that I do more often than I’d like and really irritates me when I do it, so I’m kind of sensitized to it” is often both entirely true and a useful way of shortcircuiting the usual adversarial dance that starts that sort of conversation.
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I also find it can help with communication. That is, when I decide I want to talk to someone about the annoying behavior (which I don’t always, of course) the opening tack of “I notice you doing X, which is something that I do more often than I’d like and really irritates me when I do it, so I’m kind of sensitized to it” is often both entirely true and a useful way of shortcircuiting the usual adversarial dance that starts that sort of conversation.