# Code: Listening ========================= ## Source: SPRING 2015/Socratic Dialogue reflection paper - Marion Sathicq.docx ------------------------- -As a “listener” I think that it is even harder: you are used to LISTEN to multiple points of view before thinking anything for sure, and this is how you feel you can make things right -Ignoring it can negatively impact your management whereas controlling it would help me in my daily decision PROCESS and in my relationships to my own managers -I will look QUIET and pleasant every day, but will have no initiative and I could be stuck to my position all my life ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/Reflection Paper Juliette ten Brink.docx ------------------------- -So were I courageous, my thought PROCESS would be as follows -Applying this question to the business environment, I can’t help but include some of Gilligan’s thoughts on male and female ‘voices’, because the role that I will take on within an organization will be inextricably linked to what defines me as a person, and the ‘voices’ that I HEAR -We should act on compassion and make sure that we LISTEN to one another -Amongst this ‘not knowing’, I am constantly struggling to not debate, but learn, to not argue, but explain, to not compete, but LISTEN; the ‘Socratic’ approach basically ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/SD_FinalEssay_ViktorPenzinger.pdf ------------------------- -Therefore, a quick hypothetical cost/benefit analysis resulted in a clear preference for signing up to this course, and I was eager to HEAR how others would feel about the topics outlined in the syllabus -to not only LISTEN to my established way of thinking as a men, but also to remind myself of this different voice constantly and to take its considerations into account -In my opinion, we as participants were able to improve our skills threefold as summarized below: 9 Socratic Dialogue, Final Essay Viktor Penzinger ESADE, Spring 2016 Firstly, playing Socrates, one has to LISTEN carefully and has to post questions according to what has been said without adding a personal opinion on the topic (=taking on a neutral role) ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/SOCRATIC DIALOGUES JOURNAL.pdf ------------------------- -It was clear that active listening is actually useful, as we are used to LISTEN to be able to respond in order to expose or impose our opinion, but we are not used to LISTEN openly without judging the others opinion -In the beginning of the course, at the time of being Socrates it was more an exercise of throwing different questions, but not paying so much attention about the answers, but actually as the course went on I realized how important it was to LISTEN with attention to the other’s thoughts, in order to be able to ask the best questions at the moment -Gathering people from different countries and cultures helped to enrich significantly the discussion and also to learn to understand and LISTEN completely different points of views and opinions ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay.docx ------------------------- -Thanks to it, I was able to understand that I had lost myself, and start the PROCESS of finding myself again ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final.pdf ------------------------- -It is somehow comforting to consider this in the light of the feeling of vacuum that is left after engaging in the socratic journey and start the endless PROCESS of making ourselves questions: as individuals, we probably cannot comprehend the extreme complexity of reality,but maybe gaining that understanding wouldn’t be that helpful either -I found it particularly revealing how both Socrates and Aristotles considered essential aspects of human life as a PROCESS rather than an outcome: in the case of Socrates, wisdom, in the case of Aristotles, happiness -§ Although it is still a work in PROCESS, I think the course and the dialectic technique have helped me become a better listener, in particular, realising the importance of making sure that we understand what our counterpart really means; trying to identify the assumptions underlying their statements, and the importance of un- biasing ourselves and put our own opinions to the side while listening to other people in order to truly keep an open mind -than Philosophers often talk about the essential topics in life in terms of processes: Socrates talks about wisdom as a journey, as absolute wisdom cannot be reached; Aristotle also refers to happiness as a PROCESS, and so on -I believe that promoting a heavier line with what the in PROCESS orientation, Hellenistic school seemed to implicitly advocate, would have an immense impact on the way business is done, in two aspects -First, I believe this greater PROCESS orientation would likely stimulate both a more failure-tolerant and a more collaborative business environment, which could incredibly contribute to foster innovation -In long-term disjunctive for happiness that I mentioned earlier, my key learning is that we should periodically engage introspection into PROCESS to ensure that what we are channelling our energy in is truly aligned with our priorities ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay - Dasha.pdf ------------------------- -I used to think that I had enough understanding of myself, and there was no point for me to constantly question myself in order to get to the bottom of the reasoning behind my every decision, because it was simply not the most efficient thinking PROCESS -By having one on one Socratic Dialogue with colleagues, we will be given the chance to genuinely LISTEN to what others have to say, and engage deep and meaningful conversations that hopefully result in mutually beneficial outcomes -Specifically, everyone’s life is a work in PROCESS towards happiness, and it can only be achieved by leading a virtuous life -To him, desire is a way to sustain and PROCESS pain, through desires pain becomes easier to bear -Even as a manager in the future, I wish to be vigilant and aware of what I ask for from my employees, and what they might have sacrificed in the PROCESS, both men and women -For example, when I feel nervous in a new environment, it is often easier and more convenient to fall back on the stereotype of “Asian girls are shy and QUIET” ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/Isabelle Spicker_Socratic Final.pdf ------------------------- -First of all, you read and HEAR what you want to read and HEAR ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/KGanko_paper.pdf ------------------------- -I observed that we were fighting and trying to impose our opinions to each other, rather than actively LISTEN and dialogue -Another learning related to the importance of the ability to actively LISTEN to others -Thirdly, we realized that we fall in love with falling in love, because usually we love the emotions attached to falling in love, but the PROCESS itself we denounce as painful and embarrassing -It is actually not the final outcome in achieving the desire itself that delivers the greatest satisfaction, but the PROCESS leading to it -However, what worries me the most is the fact that, even though asking questions and dialoguing has so many advantages, what should be our strategies for implementing that method with people who do not want to dialogue? Who do not want to LISTEN, because they think they are always right? Would we be courageous enough to pursue despite receiving rejections? How can we teach others how dialogue if they only know how to debate? How would we know if we have some effect on others? Socrates was poisoned because of his efforts to educate himself and others, to question people and make them think – are people seeking the truth under the same threat? If yes is it worth to sacrifice oneself? (After studying philosophy we are left with more questions than answers) ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/SD_FinalEssay_AlessaVogler.pdf ------------------------- -According to Victor Frankl, desire gave him a meaning during his time in the concentration camp and was a means to PROCESS and sustain pain, thus making it easier to bear -Taken that there are important aspects from both research findings, every human should LISTEN to both ‘voices’ -She concluded that men and women LISTEN more actively to the one or the other voice when in fact it is best to disregard neither of them -As you wrote on Moodle, action is a result from thinking and in my opinion you have made us think a lot in the past weeks and I am sure this thought PROCESS will have an impact on our future actions! ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/socratic final essay.docx ------------------------- -They never had someone who would LISTEN to them and guide them ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/Marek Medvesek_Final essay_ Socratic Dialogue.pdf ------------------------- -In the future I will try to LISTEN more and ask good questions rather than overwhelm people with content -It may very well be that we will never be able to answer the question, the effort to try and the PROCESS itself are extremely valuable ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/AKBAR, Sumer - SD Final Essay.docx ------------------------- -It became clear to me that I had to look into my own thought PROCESS and challenge the underlying assumptions I have made -Happiness is relative to the individual and is a temporal PROCESS and a part of discovering the meaning of life which can change over time -To some degree, I was successful in understanding new and foreign concepts and opinions, and I aspire to continue to do so as part of my philosophical learning PROCESS ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/Laker, Maximilian - Final Essay.pdf ------------------------- -As a reminder, this is only concerning the quality of the outcome, not of the PROCESS of attaining it -With her being in her nineties now, we are the last generations to be able to LISTEN and talk to people that have first hand experience of such horrors ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay_Phillip Schmalzried.pdf ------------------------- -I believe, however, that while examining our lives or actively reflecting on our actions and experiences are essential and helpful in the PROCESS of identifying our meaning of life, it does not necessarily imply us achieving it -16 Responsibility „Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and LISTEN -And as promised in the very first session, in the course of this reflection PROCESS more questions arose than I knew how to find the answer to ------------------------- ## Source: SPRING 2015/YelizSunay_FinalReflectionandEssay.pdf ------------------------- -However, every person has a different mindset and therefore has a different thinking PROCESS, depending on a variety of factors -There is no way I can achieve happiness by not knowing what makes me happy and I can’t LISTEN to what others believe what I should do -I have been looking into MSC programs for around one year and planned every application PROCESS consciously and I showed full commitment -I started seeing the bigger picture and the individuals who got harmed in the PROCESS -------------------------