generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we…

generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we can invite them nurture in ourselves to render it instinctive. It involves a kind of vulnerability that is a willingness to be surprised, to let go of assumptions and taken ambiguity. The listener wants to understand the humanity behind the words of the other, and patiently summons one's own best self and one's own best words and questions.

— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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