Be Curious, Not Judgmental | Walt Whitman | Art Print (11x14)

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O Mother, to think that we are to have here soon what I have seen so many times, the awful loads and trains and boatloads of poor, bloody, and pale and wounded young men again — for that is what we certainly will, and before very long. I see all the little signs, getting ready in the hospitals, etc.; it is dreadful when one thinks about it. I sometimes think over the sights I have myself seen: the arrival of the wounded after a battle, and the scenes on the field, too, and I can hardly believe my own recollections. What an awful thing war is! Mother, it seems not men but a lot of devils and butchers butchering each other. Introduction: Conversational Leadership Skills The technical abilities we use during a conversation Think for a moment about one individual that you would characterize as possessing relentless curiosity. My suspicion is that regardless of who it was that came to your mind, they did so largely because of your experience of them encountering other people, in particular people quite different from themselves . It may be quite easy to be animated by relentless curiosity about words and ideas; things like the history of a social movement or the beauty of our favorite author’s prose; what meets our eyes when we gaze at the vastness of the heavens or the intricacies of a cell. It’s quite another to remain curious about the person right in front of us, especially when what we know may make us want to stay away.

Quotes about Whitman [ edit ] I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of " LEAVES OF GRASS." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world. ~ Randall Jarrell Whitman’s masterpiece, his whole vision, is exactly about this: life as a quest for truth, love, beauty, goodness, and freedom; life as the art of becoming human through the cultivation of the human soul. ~ Rob Riemen Not judgemental. Not “I know what this means”, not imagining the worst, not coming to hasty conclusions. If the Lasso way is wrong, it’s hard to imagine being right.” — Trent Crimm, Season 1 Episode 3: “Trent Crimm: The Independent” Knowledge Café: Triggering the Conversation There are a number of ways in which you can trigger the conversation Curiosity genuinely doesn’t know, it wants to find out more, whilst judgement already knows enough.

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Most of the books published during the five-year period leading up to, during, and after the invasion of Mexico were war-mongering tracts. Euro-American settlers were nearly all literate, and this was the period of the foundational "American literature," with writers James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville all active-each of whom remains read, revered, and studied in the twenty-first century, as national and nationalist writers, not as colonialists. Although some of the writers, like Melville and Longfellow, paid little attention to the war, most of the others either fiercely supported it or opposed it. Whitman, a supporter, was also enamored of the violent Indian- and Mexican-killing Texas Rangers. Whitman saw the war as bolstering US self-respect and believed that a "true American" would be unable to resist "this pride in our victorious armies." Sports for a Dyspeptic Race", Intimate With Walt: Whitmans Conversataions With Horace Traubel, p. 261 It doesn’t matter how long it takes to get to your destination. What matters is how determined and motivated you are to reach it and become the happy and successful person who you were always meant to be. When we make judgements we’re inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn’t it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?― Jay Woodman

I think that you might be so sure that you’re one in a million, that sometimes you forget that out there you’re just one in 11.” — Ted Lasso, Season 1 Episode 2: “Biscuits” Here’s a little instruction for life. An invitation, you might call it, to listen better. For your life, my life, any life. A little something Walt Whitman once wrote, no less, a little piece of advice that’ll serve you well. Now, then, forever. Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, The Myth of Thamus and Theuth Does writing allow the pretense of understanding, rather than true understanding?

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What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to be more than all the print I have read in my life.” Conversation with Whitman (July 16 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. II Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV But then much to my surprise, in walks Ted Lasso. If you have not seen the show, Ted Lasso is on Apple+ and I highly recommend it.* In short, it’s the story of an American college football coach who is hired to coach a premier league soccer team in England. Without giving too much away, the Ted Lasso character, played by Jason Sudeikis, is optimistic and resilient, the ultimate “good sport.” Every Friday, I excitedly wait for the next episode, sometimes using the excuse of my son rising early to get my early morning fix before starting the rest of my day. Entrained Thinking Blinded to new ways of thinking by perspectives acquired through past experience