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Make Great Listening Part of Your Everyday Life

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What’s well begun, is half done.

—ARISTOTLE, POLITICS

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PLATO POINTED OUT that, “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” And psychologist William James stated that when developing a new ability, “we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.” If you get off to a bad start, you are apt to flounder needlessly and perhaps even give up on your effort to improve. But with a sound beginning, the development of a new ability gets a big boost. ...

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