More Time to Think: The power of independent thinking

APPRECIATION The Three S’s: Be: Succinct Sincere Specific

And, if their answer is anything other than “Nothing, I am finished,” we have to hear – and memorize – their exact words. If their words are too numerous to memorize, we ask them to use fewer words.

In fact, for people to think for themselves beautifully around you, you paradoxically have to keep 100 percent of your Attention in three places simultaneously:

In Practice: The Invitation Question

Attention Listening without interruption Being interested in what the person will say next Attention is an act of creation Listening to reply is different from listening to ignite As the thinker, knowing you will not be interrupted frees you truly to think for yourself

An untrue assumption causes a true one to stop us. So the question that finds the real block (the untrue assumption) uses the word “causes” is: That’s possible, but what are you assuming that causes that assumption to stop you?

Respecting Boundaries

It is love of the person’s mind. Love of their capability. Love of their yet un-thought thoughts that only they, not you, can generate, but that your Attention makes possible. It is love of their goodness. Love, most of all, of their intelligence. And it is love like this, beamed through your Attention, that is the change-maker, the fire on the tip

Our Attention is asking these silent Incisive Questions: If you knew that you are intelligent, what thoughts would you dare to have? If you knew that you are good, where would your thinking go next? If you knew that you are beautiful exactly as you are, if you knew that listening to you is the most important thing I can be doing right now, if you k