Sometimes it feels like you are the only one who cares about what you’re doing, mostly because nobody cares as much as you do, except maybe your mom. Being a founder and CEO can lead to weird sort of egotistical ‘poor me’. That’s a stupid space to spend any time, but I don’t think it’s an unusual place. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve found myself in that space a few times, and bad things come of it. It’s rabbit hole of isolation and resentment.
To connect.
For me, listening, when I do it well, is meditation.
Meditation is the act of observation, it’s being aware of your breath as it enters your body, and as it leaves, observing thoughts that flow through you. Sometimes I have as many as 2-5 seconds when I am totally present and merely observing those thoughts are happening rather than engaging with them.
Those are lovely and liberating seconds when my mind doesn’t own me, when I am something more and less. It’s magical and godlike.
Listening as meditation is being fully present when someone is speaking.
Most of us know about active listening, you know, that thing you learn in marriage counseling, “what I hear you saying is that if I leave my shoes out in the entry way again you are going to kill me in my sleep.” Whatever, we’ve all done that, it’s annoying. Read more
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