Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

by Nancy Kline

‘I’ll ask you again. If you knew that you alone can do something, how else might you go about finding like-minded people to discuss this with?’

‘And again, if you knew that you alone can do something, how else would you find like-minded people to discuss this with?’

‘And again, if you knew that you alone …’

Kyle smiled and nodded. ‘You’re doing a great job,’ he said. ‘And how else might you find like-minded people to discuss this with if you knew that you alone can do something?’

‘then write down the question so you won’t forget it.’

She could transform a crowd of nerves into laughter and ease just with the way she asked and listened. Her focus was on them, not on herself.

I watched people become more and more articulate in the light of her real and respectful, unhurried attention. This, I believe, is what people miss.