Listening is a magnetic and strange thing

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

From Alan Weiss at Summit Consulting.  He publishes a weekly focus point worth reading.

This week’s focus point: You can use judgment without being judgmental. Slapping labels on people (High M, RNTJ, expressive/compulsive/regressive) diminishes communication and makes the tacit assumption that they are somehow damaged and inferior because they are in a "category." Once you start seeing "types" and stop seeing people, you've stopped applying your judgment and your discernment, and you're no longer listening and learning.

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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force… When we are listened to, it… makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Brenda Ueland