Tribes

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”

― Roy T. Bennett,The Light in the Heart

When we speak, do we speak for ourselves as individuals, or do we speak for our tribe. We all belong to some tribal allegiance and much of what we have to say is not original thought but defense of our tribe. We belong to the political tribe, the ideological tribe, the gender tribe, the race tribe, the religious tribe and the list goes on. We see the world through the lens of our belief structures and so we communicate to others through this lens.

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