Listening Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/listening/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:13:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Listening Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/listening/ 32 32 Good Habits for Individuality https://mind-at-work.com/good-habits-for-individuality/ Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:08:57 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6104 Rodin's The Thinker This essay is part 2 of "Living Wisely in a Foolish World." It's pleasant to regard ourselves as individuals from birth, having formed our own ideas, attitudes, perspectives, preferences, likes and dislikes, and so on, completely uninfluenced by others. Pleasant, but mistaken!  We were receiving influences by hearing and touch [...]

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]]> On Reading and Listening, Part 2 https://mind-at-work.com/on-reading-and-listening-part-2/ Sat, 02 Mar 2019 14:59:38 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3196 The first part of this essay noted the reading and listening deficit in America and identified its causes as the brevity and rapid pace of modern communication and the widespread habit of closing our minds to ideas other than our own. It also suggested how individuals can overcome these obstacles. This continuation of the essay discusses [...]

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