"My listening to you is based on my intellectual and emotional context at the time of listening.... If my context, my mind, is ripe, I will recognize a good idea if it comes along, and otherwise I will not grasp it."
"Taking this stance on listening as a starting point knowledge sharing is what? Sharing knowledge is where a storyteller recounts a story that is particularly relevant to the listener at this time, otherwise it would fall on deaf ears, and no sharing would take place, only broadcasting. Knowledge sharing takes place in dialogues, wether in real time or not, where all parties take on the role of both story teller and listener."
"From any piece of knowledge I cannot describe who shared it with me: it is the resulting amalgam of all information inputs on a certain subject, of listening to multiple storytellers. Sometimes I can name influential sources, sometimes I cannot. Learning is mostly a voyage of discovery, a journey of listening, where only in the end, not along the way, I might have something to say on what brought me to my goal.... What can help me along on my road of discovery is relationships, storytellers who can point to other storytellers."
"What do blogs do for me in this sense? It's a place where I can tell stories.... My stories are stories I use to accomodate my listening, I recount, and thereby interpret and give a place to what I listened to in my own mental context."
