Dear girls, I’ve missed you and here the new year has arrived, we have to do a year‑end recap. So coffee and let’s begin. A new year is always a good opportunity to look back. Usually we tend to measure the past year by external achievements: the new job, the goals we reached, or the places we visited. But when I look at my past year, my most significant achievement actually happened from within. This year I learned to do something that was very hard for me before – to learn to listen, a crazy shift from listening to responding to listening to understand. In the past, when someone spoke to me or presented an opinion different from mine, my brain would instantly go into a defensive or attack mode. I wasn’t really listening. I was busy drafting my answer, with arguments to prove I was right, and how to convince the other side. This year I realized that the need to be right at any cost costs us dearly—it costs us our peace of mind and the quality of our relationships with those around us. The post “The best gift I gave myself this year” appeared for the first time in Salon.
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