"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They’re either speaking or preparing to speak. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives."
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Dr. Stephen Covey (1932- )
Something I’m trying to do better at, listening, understanding, digesting vs preparing a reply. A major threat to the development of an intellect like mine, alongside laziness and a facility for wrapping even faulty ideas in elegant words, is the need to be clever and be heard which threatens the real goal of understanding more and better.
