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For this reason, I’m going to change the term from active listening to loving listening. I want to help you move away from the idea that listening is only beneficial to your partner, and lean into it being for you, too, and your relationship. Listening is a connecting point. Show your partner you are lovingly listening by minimizing interruptions and distractions (put down your phone), using eye contact, reflecting back to them what you’re hearing and clarifying with them that you’re hearing correctly, validating their concerns, and trying to understand how they might be feeling.
Secure Love
Julie Menanno
If the goal is the arena, then winning is what counts, and doing things is the means to the end. If the goal is doing things, then doing better than others is just a neutral side effect of doing your thing well. It is low-status and vaguely shameful to say that you just want to be the cool kid on campus, the winner in the arena. So most people never admit it, even to themselves. They talk and think as if just doing the thing is what matters to them. But their behavior—my behavior—often indicates the opposite.
What Kind of Company Do You Want to Build?
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After a few months, we scrapped the whole system. No more half days. We organized our time into bigger chunks—weeks, months. We started taking a macro view of our projects. And that enabled us to build the V1 of Velo in about eighteen months. Then we handed it, gleaming and new, to sales and marketing.
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