The Simple Listening Manifesto

1. The ultimate meaning in listening is shared understanding

2. Everything good that has ever come about has come about through understanding

3. The quality of our relationships is equal to the quality of our listening

4. We trust people who make it easy for us to feel understood

5. Understanding brings out of our best selves

6. How interesting listening is depends less on how others talk and more on how we listen

7. Better listening brings about better talking

8. Understanding requires no one to be other than who they are

9. The more distinctions we have, the more understanding is possible

10. Understanding is a vast possibility space just beyond the horizon of our judgments

11. We listen to others with the same quality that we listen to ourselves

12. We are hard wired for curiosity, not animosity

13. Empathy is engagement of imagination; lack of empathy is a lack of imagination

14. We don’t need to learn how to listen for understanding; it’s our true nature

15. When we listen to one another, we listen each other’s stories into existence

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