Today during our zoom call, Irwin Kula, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, had us dive into what it means to truly listen, and why often times we have trouble doing so. Many times when someone is talking to us, we want to speak before they have finished getting their words out. It requires some form of discipline to refrain from interrupting as our thoughts and notions are constantly flowing and these idea waves drown us from truly understanding what the person is saying to us. Indeed listening requires a tremendous amount of self-awareness and emotion control, even if we do not naturally see/notice that.

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