By Ana Lepri
There is a humorous 1-1/2 minute video called
Masi, Me Tiro which
is winning awards around the world. It has inspired me to reflect on
how we listen to others. The characters demonstrate that our listening
is often filtered through our personal judgments and preconceptions of
others. This filtering limits our ability to listen. We find ourselves
reacting to what’s being said and to who we think they are based on our
history and their identity (or appearance). We are prisoners of our
stories about them. We are not really listening to what the other person
is saying. In the video, the two men are trapped inside their own circular
conversations, unable to hear or validate the other person except inside
the interpretation they have of them. They react to each other without
listening.[
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By Jim Selman |
Bio
In 1976, I was working with some government
employees in Virginia trying to implement a new system for integrating
human services—a kind of one-stop shop for all the various services
offered at that time. I had just finished the est training the previous
July and was overwhelmed with my own experience and the idea that a
person could transform themselves and their relationship to everything.
Until then, I had bought into the belief that people don’t really
change in fundamental ways, that personalities are fairly fixed, and
that it requires a major crisis to shift our perceptions of reality. It
was during that period that I formulated the idea that[
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I came across an extraordinary six-minute YouTube video called ‘
The Shift’—a
presentation that blows one’s mind with factoids about the rate of
change in the world. The Shift they are talking about is a ‘paradigm
shift’, meaning our entire worldview, indeed our whole reality, is
being turned upside down and inside out by virtue of technology,
population and the exponentially accelerating rate of change. Whether
we like it or not, our ‘new reality’ challenges our commonsense and
conventional wisdom with ideas like “Knowledge is becoming obsolete
before you learn it”.
Joel Barker
sold a videotape in the 1980s called “Discovering the Future: The
Business of Paradigms™” in which he showed that the world is always a
function of our interpretation of it and that, from time to time, for a
variety of reasons, the world transforms in ways that are difficult to
impossible for people to fathom when it is happening.[
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