How to Be a Better Listener

When you don't know a topic very well, you have to scaffold the conversation with notes. I would prepare a lot beforehand, but then- So you're not a power point. If I come, you're not going to give a PowerPoint speech. Here's what we're doing. You're just going to speak and talk more about it. Usually before a lecture, I'll sit down for 20 minutes with my eyes closed. And I figure out what the- what the central topic is. What's the question I'm trying to address in this lecture? And then I'll figure out a pathway through it.