I once read a quote by Bertrand Russell that really helped me respond to people better. He was talking about studying philosophy, but it applies to understandin

I once read a quote by Bertrand Russell that really helped me respond to people better. He was talking about studying philosophy, but it applies to understanding points of view in general. Here it is: In studying a philosopher, the right attitude is neither reverence nor contempt, but first a kind of hypothetical sympathy, until it is possible to know what it feels like to believe in his theories, and only then a revival of the critical attitude, which should resemble, as far as possible, the state of mind of a person abandoning opinions which he hitherto held. Contempt interferes with the first part of this process, and reverence with the second. This helped me a lot, hope it helps you too!