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Mentor's Field Guide · No. 03

The Discipline of Listening

Give full attention, reflect back what you hear, ask rather than assume, and tolerate silence. Listen without rushing to fix.

Mentor's Field Guide #3, The Discipline of Listening: an older Black mentor listening closely to a young woman, his phone face down on the table, with the quote “You cannot reach a person you have not first heard. Listening is not the warm-up to the work. It is the doorway in.” — Melvin Williams Sr

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