The Elitist Politico: A Proliferate who takes the Word "Regard" away from Truths meaning. : Thinking and Listening.

Given our almost additive reliance on assumptions-and on the illusions that coexisted with them-we often communicate with others, creating great chaos.

The continuous polarization's along lines in aftermaths are the glaring examples of 'We The People' failed to question our own assumptions that we need be ashamed of.

Our failures to question our own assumptions have redundantly enabled America's failures simply because-as a nation we refused to really hear what was being communicated to us. We remained oblivious toward the fundamentals behind the communications and still do having demonstrated learned nothing.

It should go without saying you can't truly communicate well if you don't listen well, and you are unable to listen well unless you are thinking well.

An industrial scientist once pointed out that the amount of time we devote to teaching certain subjects to our children in school is inversely proportional to the frequency with which they will make use of them when they grow up.

In most public and private schools, there is virtually no formal education on these crucial aspects of communicating.

A successful top executive will spend at least three-quarters of his or her time thinking and listening. They will spend a small fraction speaking and an even smaller fraction writing.

Yet the amount of formal education we get in developing these essential skills is inversely proportional to what is required to be an effective executive. The skills are, in fact, essentials in every aspect of our lives.

Many people think that thinking is a passive interaction. It is just the opposite.

Listening well is an active exercise or our attention and , by necessity, is hard work.

It is because one does not realize this or because they are no willing to do the work that people don't listen well.

When we extend ourselves by attempting to listen and communicate well, we take an extra step or walk an extra mile.

We do so in opposition to the inertia of laziness or the resistance of fear. It always requires hard work.

Listening well also requires total concentration upon another and is a manifestation of love in the broadest sense of the word.

An essential part of listening well is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices, frames of reference, and desires in order to experience as far as possible another's world from the inside, stepping inside his or her shoes.

This unification of speaker and listener is actually an extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from it.

Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other.

Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener.

As this happens, speaker and listener begin to understand each other better and better.

True communication is under way and the duet dance of love has begun.

The energy required for the discipline of bracketing and the focusing of total attention on another is so great that it can be accomplished only by love, which was defined as the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.

Most of the time we lack lack this energy.

Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively.

Often, we have a preset agenda in mind and wonder as we listen how can we achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over with as quickly as possible or re-directed in ways more satisfactory to us.

Many of us are far more interested in talking then is listening , or we simply refuse to listen to what we don't want to hear.

While it is true that one's capacity to listen well may improve gradually with practice, it never becomes an effortless process.

Sometimes toward ends of careers, some leaders may go over somethings because they finally recognized that their mind had wandered.

The first few times done, they may have wondered while questioning selves whether they had been listening at all or were simply resentful.

What truest leaders in global citizenship would have no fear of recognition in would be all of those skeletons buried in their closet that intuitively ignored all vital elements of the capacity to listen well ignored being alert for those lapses when one was not truly listening.

Now self acknowledged and ready to confess as a world statesmen that their attention had actually wandered would now be the time to realistically assure all nations that most of the time I was listening well.

It has been well established within the art of diplomacy that the knowledge that one is truly being listened to is frequently, in and of itself, remarkably therapeutic and quite beneficial towards all.

History has shown the world time and again whether negotiating with adults or children why bully diplomacy never worked simply due to the fact that before any of the roots of problems were uncovered or significant interpretations made, chief among them always came down to having not truly listened and discerned properly.
The World now summoned into this stratosphere via Covid-19's wake up call toward all must now Ethically make those duty choice judgement calls {like it or not} concerning all actions taken by a self declared rouge world republic.