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Jeffrey Davis's avatar

Thanks for this conversation. I've been reading Radical Listening off and on for the past two weeks. It doesn't matter what page I open to, I always get a gem of an insight or reframe that helps me keep learning a set of lifelong skills. With a mastermind group this past week, with Radical Listening in mind, in fact, I led them through an exercise for deep listening and to reflect on what qualities they embody when fully present and listening. It seemed to lead to one of our most magical mastermind spotlights.

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Julie Hickman's avatar

I enjoyed this conversation immensely. It may be the only time that the term radical seemed equivalent to refreshing. I look forward to reading the book.

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Yuri Zavorotny's avatar

Yeah, whatever happened to active listening? :)

I wonder if we struggle to teach active, or radical, or whatever you call it listening is because what we effectively are trying to teach is the art of understanding. And while we humans can learn many things by observing other people doing it, the capacity to understand is not one of those things.

By showing other people how we do it, we often end up teaching them to imitate it. I think this happens a lot with psychology majors.

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Ryan Meachen's avatar

Great bunch of human beings. Can't wait to listen :-)

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Paul Joannides, Psy.D.'s avatar

You sure use a lot of psychobabble buzzwords.

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