“Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually, you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.” [...]
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“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.“ ~Thich Nhat Hanh Effective influencers master the art of listening, and they understand that people want to be heard. In our fast-paced world, active and empathetic listening is a rarity, and it’s not as simple as it sounds. Even if we know how to [...]
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My computer slows down to a halt. I get impatient. I start looking for the cell phone. I can check Twitter, and Facebook, and email faster that way. I can’t find the phone. Instead, my eyes catch the cover of a coffee table book about luxury brands. It’s in Russian, and it has beautiful photos. [...]
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It’s been four years since I received Vogue in the mail. The birth of my daughter, several moves and other priorities took time away from this element of self-indulgence. Nevertheless, I still remember how flipping through those glossy pages made me feel. Like Carrie Bradshaw proclaimed in “Sex and the City,” spending a leisurely morning [...]
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If your typical day feels like a rush of harried interactions and distractions, you are not alone. The prevalence of virtual communication makes it easy to leave a conversation mid-sentence as soon as our attention is highjacked by another urgent message. Although we consider it poor etiquette to engage in multitasking while talking to someone [...]
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With exclusive interviews from
Dr. Farhad Saba,
Dr. Rosemary Lehman,
Dr. Donna Gibbs,
Dr.Germain-Rutherford,
Anastasia Pryanikova, M.A., J.D.,
and James Breeze.
