Don’t look now, but conversations are becoming increasingly rare.
The fact that there are plenty of attempts at messaging doesn’t mean any real conversations are taking place…
Just because there is measurable attention being paid to a given topic or hundreds of hours of talk devoted to a critical issue is no guarantee of progress.
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When was the last time you were in a room where the problem was a shortage of talk?
Each of us has an experience, a perspective or an insight (or two) worth sharing. The challenge, at least as it relates to building productive relationships, is that some of us (I’m looking in the mirror, FYI) act like the insight is so grand as to warrant the lion’s share of attention in any room.
So there is almost never a shortage of talk.
Meanwhile, interactions where the objective is to listen, intent on learning, are rare.
If you’ve encountered anyone skilled at purposeful listening it might have made you a bit uncomfortable. It almost certainly made an impression.
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I remember when we used to be able to disagree with each other.
We could
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At some point, given the right topic, almost everyone will have a moment worth sharing.
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From the sublime (Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural for example) to the ridiculous (see the latest
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Honest dialogue can change things fast. It creates connections, seeds ideas, and is the critical
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The game show Jeopardy has had it right all along — knowing the right question
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