
The Power of Deep Listening – Part 1
Tara Brach
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We Aren't Meeting Our Potential for Listening, Right?
In Buddhism, the archetype of the bodhisattva is described as listening to the cries of the world and responding with compassion. The average person listens at only 25% efficiency,. Can you repeat those stats? You can do it on chat. But anyway, the point that I'm trying to make is that we aren't meeting our potential for listening. We've got huge potential and we don't come nearer to it. Our human attention span has now dropped to just eight seconds. And that's down from 12 seconds in 2000.
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