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The art of listening: why a good question beats a ready answer

Most conversations are two monologues taking turns at pretending to be a dialogue: while the other person speaks, we are loading our next line. The gap between waiting for you to stop and trying to understand you is enormous. Why a good question opens a subject and a ready answer closes it.