When was the last time you: heard someone speak Hittite, answered a question in Moabite, attended a lecture in Kitan or saw a movie in Alsean with Bina subtitles?
Posts Tagged ‘listen’
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
When was the last time you
- Listening is harder than prepared speaking. With prepared speaking you know what's coming next. Read more >Posted by Tom Osborn on 2009-11-27 00:40:07
- "Imagine where we could go, where we could get to if we taught listening the way we teach public speaking. If we taught hearing skills the way we teach presentation skills."
Absolutely brilliant!!! Read more >Posted by Yitzchok Dubov on 2009-11-26 22:59:34
- Relationships are more than the communication (and languages that carry them). They are also the living, breathing entities with needs and wants, and stances and possessions, and the interactions between them. Now, imagine those interactions let run without the communication. Not a pretty site! Tom. Read more >Posted by Tom Osborn on 2009-11-26 05:06:30
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Be Wary
Don’t believe your own BS – we all know that idiomatic turn of phrase.
It’s what happens when we get too caught up in selling, in personal agenda, in preaching.
Posted by David on 06/08 at 02:32 PM
- love that notion -- its the Emperors new clothes -- its worth paying someone to tell you that you are naked
- Thats why you need a mastermind partner. I can talk to mine and tell him ideas and he can tell me- HEY what are you smokin? You need someone in your corner to call you on your crap!!! great post! Dr. Wright The Wright Place TV Show
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Inertia
Inertia. You know the Universal Law that keeps us moving blindly or sitting dumbly. Among its definitions are apathy, torpor, lethargy and even disinterest.
- Vacation aside -- the notion of a fish not knowing they are in water -- is interesting to me -- think on it -- what is our parallel?
- Nicely said Andrew. I think a lot about cause and effect in all of this as a way to train myself to think more deeply about my everyday actions (and inactions). I also have a mentor who is outside of the company. I give him a high level overview of what I'm up to every few months so ...
- I find that inertia and “horizontal” thought is not only a tempting behavior pattern stemming from lethargy and inaction, but also a pitfall for well motivated people who fail to identify the linear trajectory of their actions. One could argue that the financial crisis (and other bubble-bust cycles) arose from consecutive years of horizontal thought. A possible solution ...
