Attention ???

Came across a nice blog post "Watch and You Will Know" (Attention and Appreciation!!)

Dave Pollard writes in the context of cultural anthropolgy :

I think what most of us want, male and female, human and other, is attention and appreciation. Everything else is derivative of those two things.

It's really all about attention, and paying attention. The attention we pay to others, and that others pay to us, defines us, far more than our appearance or our name. And how can we appreciate what someone (a life partner, a business partner, a customer, an employee, a friend, a foe) is about and has to offer unless and until we pay attention to her, really listen and observe with (as much as is humanly possible) no judgement, no personal filters or frames impeding. And once weve paid enough attention that we really understand that person (or for that matter, that creature of any species), how can we not appreciate her?
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Things are the way they are for a reason. Watch, listen, observe, pay attention, and you will know that reason. Most genius, most innovation, most emotion, I am convinced, stems from this 'first-hand' knowledge.

This is the skill, more than any other, that I need to learn.

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