I think that our ‘culture of busy’ has impacted our ability to listen. We are so concerned with not wasting our own or sometimes other people’s time that we fail to listen fully.

Let me give you an example:

Today I attended and testified at a legislative hearing on proposed plans to overhaul the State of Maine’s [...]

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I can remember the history class in which I first learned about Hegel and his dialect: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. It amazed me to hear it. It was powerful stuff, the idea of individuals sharing opposing ideas, debating the merits with the sole purpose of, not standing steadfast to an idea or simply finding [...]

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