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While listening to this audiobook, about listening, I found myself needing to rewind occasionally to hear something more clearly. But I did start to be more present for what I was hearing, too, and I‘m not sure that would have been the same with a text copy. Definitely a make-you-think book, about how and why to listen better.

One thing I learned is why I speed up my audio books, we process words faster than people talk. When we speak to someone in person we are listening & reading their body/facial language too so that will fill our brains but with an audio book or podcast it‘s just the sound. Our brains can wander without more input. As a fast reader, I find normal audio speed torture. I really enjoyed this, some tricks to hear what kids are saying between the lines

Southern Ontario weather has taken a ( drastic) turn to season normal temps 😣 so I‘m making chicken noodle soup and getting my hygge on

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Prompt: Listening Day

“Listening helps you see that we are all dealing with similar issues — wanting to be loved, looking for purpose, and fearing the end. You learn you are not alone.”

“In one study of children at a device-free outdoor camp, researchers found that after just 5 days without phones or tablets & interacting w/ peers, the kids were able to accurately read facial expressions & identify the emotions of people in photographs and videotaped scenes significantly better than controls who had not attended the camp & continued using their devices.”

“Charles Reagan Wilson, an emeritus professor of history and Southern studies at the University of Mississippi, recalled asking the short-story writer and novelist Eudora Welty why the south produced so many great writers. ‘Honey,‘ she said, ‘we didn‘t have anything else to do but sit on the porch and talk, and some of us wrote it down.‘”

Thought provoking and inspiring. Offers important insights into how we interact with each other, society, and ourselves.