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How to research effectively and systematically with Evernote and write scientific papers from digital notecards.
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* Niklas Luhmann Communication with Zettelkästen, original quote in German
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* gingko app
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Creating Structure to Go Deep
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A friend of mine was telling me about two of the most successful times of his often very scattered life ....
https://zenhabits.net/deep-structure/
* zen habits
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Sometimes, however, there is this contradiction: we ask about practising with fear while being afraid of practising with fear….
https://buddhismnow.com/2010/01/20/fear-and-suffering/
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* Buddhism
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* Corrado Pensa
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Office Hours moved to March 23. Daylight Savings Time starts on different dates in different countries (impact on MWYW). Juggling multiple ideas/proje...
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Please note that I write my blog on weekends. It is not part of my workload or job description. I support the #USSstrike and “teach out” online. Not every thesis has a section or chapt…
https://patthomson.net/2018/03/12/writing-the-thesis-the-theoretical-framework/
Jonathan Williams is co-editor of Queer Out Here, writer of blog posts at In Which I, walker of long distances and organiser of things. In his day job, he wrangles a school database. He completed h…
https://theresearchwhisperer.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/goal-setting-with-a-group/
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The Archive is a new note-taking app for MacOS. Its basic functionality will be familiar to you if you’ve ever used Notational Velocity or its more popular fork nvAlt. There’s an editor…
https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2018/03/24/the-archive-a-new-slip-box-for-your-notes/
* The Archive
I recently bought to volumes of late Luhmann interviews, namely Niklas Luhmann, Archimedes und wir (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1987) and Wolfgan...
http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2018/02/luhmanns-alternative-to-zettelkasten.html
The zettelkasten method of note taking is not just any method for taking and managing notes, but one that reflects the power of modern science. It makes our notes mobile, stable, and combinable, allowing us to achieve 'action at a distance.'
https://www.seanlawson.net/2018/02/use-zettelkasten-method-scientific-note-taking/
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My own implementation of a Zettelkasten does not make a distinction between continuing topics (or weiterführende Zettel) and branching ones ...
http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2018/02/different-kinds-of-links.html
This post is by Dr Katherine Firth, research fellow at Latrobe university and fellow Thesis Whisperer. Katherine blogs over at Research Voodoo. This is another in our series of posts about our upco…
https://thesiswhisperer.com/2018/02/14/de-stuffing-your-writing-or-the-the-bumper-list-of-words-and-phrases-you-could-delete-to-make-your-writing-more-concise/
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* https://researchvoodoo.wordpress.com)
* https://researchvoodoo.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/10-tips-for-more-concise-writing/ )
* polishing stage
* Helen Sword’s The Writer’s Diet
* Stephen King’s On Writing
* Patrick Dunleavy’s Authoring a PhD
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* Academic writing is like a painful, upper middle class dinner party
Please note, I write my blog on weekends. It is not part of my workload, nor in my job description. I support the #USS strike. Many of you probably know what the term a ‘threshold concept’ means. M…
https://patthomson.net/2018/02/26/threshold-concepts-in-academic-writing/
* Erik Meyer and Roy Lands
* Naming what we know. Threshold
* Concepts
* of Writing Studies.
* ( open access online)
* Kevin Roozen
* text work /identity work
* ESRC project reports for threshold concepts study.
* Resources on threshold concepts
Please note, I write my blog on weekends. It is not part of my workload, nor in my job description. I support the #USS strike. Many of you probably know what the term a ‘threshold concept’ means. M…
https://patthomson.net/2018/02/26/threshold-concepts-in-academic-writing/
* Erik Meyer and Roy Lands
* Naming what we know. Threshold
* Concepts
* of Writing Studies.
* ( open access online)
* Kevin Roozen
* text work /identity work
* ESRC project reports for threshold concepts study.
* Resources on threshold concepts
A recent question during A Meeting With Your Writing got me thinking about distraction in a bit more detail.
Hello Kurtis,
A reminder that you get to ...
https://mailchi.mp/jovanevery/focus-the-desire-for-distraction?e=79f6274f47
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* written about this topic
What if every time you sat down to write you were not fighting distraction and procrastination? What if you could approach your writing confidently, knowing you would be able to focus and you would move your project forward? Finding it hard to focus/getting distracted is normal. Self-flagellation does not work to improve your focus. Furthermore …
https://jovanevery.ca/focus-and-distraction-self-flagellation-not-required/
* A Meeting With Your Writing
* Academic Writing Studio
* Energy + Focus + Intensity = Higher Productivity
* Distraction: not the usual suspects
* When another project is distracting you from this one
* What to do in your breaks
As much as we demonize the technology that infiltrates our lives, our phones are incredibly useful devices. So rather than try to give them up, we need to learn to control distracting apps so they don't take over our lives.
https://blog.rescuetime.com/delete-distracting-apps-find-focus/
* dscout
* Deloitte’s latest survey
* iPhone users unlock their phones around 80 times every 24 hours
* Behavior Model
* Wired
* Fogg explains
* once explained
* nearly ⅔ of smartphone users never change their notification settings
* Deloitte
* calls apps “magicians.”
* upwards of 40% of our daily actions are powered by habits
* a recent survey
* a quick guide
* Thrive App
* Siempo
* RescueTime
* Forest
* Warren Wong
I have worked exclusively with PhD students for over a decade now. I have clocked up the 10,000 hours Malcolm Gladwell says you need to be an expert, so I hereby declare myself an expert in the pro…
https://thesiswhisperer.com/2018/02/21/when-is-it-enough/
* (in fact, I’m writing a whole book about this one with Shaun Lehmann and Katherine Firth
* many examiners prefer a shorter thesis
* ‘wicked problem’
* The difficult dicussion chapter
* What do examiners think about a PhD by Publication?
By Susan Carter Recently three experiences collided for me: getting a rejection on an article that I had co-authored; examining a thesis; and giving feedback on a literature review. They brought ho…
https://doctoralwriting.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/turning-facts-into-a-doctoral-story-the-essence-of-a-good-doctorate/#more-2042
* Margaret Reeves
* the rise of the novel
* thesis structuring work
* importance of narrative
In my last post, I talked about the struggle of getting back into my writing. Last year was predominantly The Year for Other People’s Writing, and it has been so long since I have created any…
https://phdinahundredsteps.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/writing-mantras-do-they-work-to-get-you-through-the-hard-days/
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Film, television, and literature all tell them better. So why are games still obsessed with narrative?
https://www.google.se/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/524148/
* Holodeck
* environmental storytelling
* Peter Pan’s Flight
* BioShock
* What Remains of Edith Finch
* interactive drama called Façade
* pretended to be a zombie
* Gone Home
* upon its release
* medium of the 21st century
* Dear Esther
* you get Monopoly
* ray tracing
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Many of us have something that we'd like to change in our lives, but it can be pretty difficult to overcome addictions or strong urges....
https://zenhabits.net/
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* Mindfully Coping with Urges & Addictions
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The Zettelkasten note-taking method has made book writing and writing scientific papers easy for hundreds of years already.
https://zettelkasten.de/posts/buffer-notes/
Andrew Abbott, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, edits the American Journal of Sociology. Abbott has twice chaired the University of Chi…
http://cmosshoptalk.com/2015/04/06/april-2015-shop-talk/
* Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials
* Mansueto Library
My background in architecture offices has given me a range of time and project management skills that are helpful in my second career as an academic. I think I’m pretty good at working multip…
https://thesiswhisperer.com/2016/04/06/gettingthingsdone/
* Cal Newport’s “How to be a straight A student”
* Dr Jason Downs
* Producteev
* Freedcamp
* Trello
* ‘Getting Things Done’ (GTD) by David Allen
* Deborah Lupton
* Pat Thomson
* How to Survive your PhD’ MOOC
* ‘tyranny of tiny tasks’ generated by other people that arrive via email
* Screen Cast academy playlist
* Asana
* download the free version
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* How to avoid death by email
* Curing Readitis
Delaying hard work is all about your mood.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-procrastination-loop-and-how-to-break-it/379142/
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* out of the ordinary for writers
* told
* wrote
* Keith M. Marzilli Ericson
* Dan Ariely
* writing
* Jaffe
Why routine, practice and habits are so important to our success.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dont-delay/201604/strength-versus-structure
Believe it or not, the Internet did not give rise to procrastination. People have struggled with habitual hesitation going back to ancient civilizations. The Greek poet Hesiod, writing around 800 B.C., cautioned not to “put …
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/why-wait-the-science-behind-procrastination
Procrastination is often attributed to bad time management, but there's more at play.
http://fortune.com/2016/10/19/emotions-and-procrastination/
* Tools of the Trade
* research shows
* How to Learn Something and Actually Retain It
* studies have shown
* causes feelings of guilt
* diminished sense of self
* The 14 Phrases Every VC Wants to Hear in Your Pitch
A Training Program for Single-Tasking & Focus
By Leo Babauta
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that I heartily believe in giving your ...
https://zenhabits.net/single-tasking/
* zen habits
* breathe
* Leo Babauta
* Habit Zen web app
* Habit Zen Invite Form
* 10 Reasons Why We Don’t Stick to Things
* The Simplicity Cycle: Returning to Paring Down to Find Your True Needs
The good thing about mindfulness as way to improve mental health is that it doesn't have to be formal practice. Creating your own mindfulness exercise is a quick and easy way to work mindfulness into your every day routine.
https://www.livingwell.org.au/well-being/what-is-mindfulness/creating-your-own-mindfulness-exercise/
The good thing about mindfulness as way to improve mental health is that it doesn't have to be formal practice. Creating your own mindfulness exercise is a quick and easy way to work mindfulness into your every day routine.
https://www.livingwell.org.au/well-being/what-is-mindfulness/creating-your-own-mindfulness-exercise/
Many people find it hard to start writing. One of the possible reasons is fear. Fear of what readers might think. Fear of being able to write stylishly enough. Fear that the writing won’t mea…
https://patthomson.net/2017/11/16/ten-ways-to-beat-the-fear-of-writing/
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Transitions: Reimagining your academic output by embracing a mind-set of abundance by Christopher Hill
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Dr Christopher Hill is a creative writer, who...
http://www.phd2published.com/2017/01/25/transitions-reimagining-your-academic-output-by-embracing-a-mind-set-of-abundance-by-christopher-hill/
* Nanyang Technological University
* chrishillnz
* AcWriMo
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* here
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Productive Conversations In my role as someone who writes about productivity, I enjoy the opportunity to discuss this topic with a variety of different
http://calnewport.com/blog/2017/02/24/the-rise-of-the-monk-mode-morning/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StudyHacks+%28Study+Hacks%29
* deep work
* monk mode
* Hanoi Mark
Here's a strategy that overcomes one of the limitations of annotating digital media.
Sign up for the ScholarStudio Thesis Boot Camp to make your thesis or dissertation process more efficient and effective http://buff.ly/2cCBKnA.
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In your PhD or large, non-fiction book every chapter needs to do a distinctive job. The ultimate low-energy way of beginning a new chapter is to say ‘As I discussed in the previous chapter, dum de…
https://medium.com/advice-and-help-in-authoring-a-phd-or-non-fiction/in-a-book-or-phd-start-each-chapter-cleanly-never-link-back-3b2865e44173
Almost everyone doing research makes a plan before getting started - because we all know that research is time consuming, often expensive and hard to predict. Nowadays too this is often accompanied…
https://medium.com/advice-and-help-in-authoring-a-phd-or-non-fiction/story-boarding-research-b430cebd5ccd
* Homepage
* Writing For Research
* Gant chart
* Wikipedia
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* explains his practice
* paragraph re-planning
* build, blur, corrode’
* email me
* arsebestos
* the MPA’s ‘capstone’ project
* Esther Bunny
* email me
* Authoring a PhD
* the Kindle edition
* LSE’s Impact blog
* @Write4Research
An elaborate literature review is an important stage in the development of almost all PhDs, and it is also a normal first step also in launching any new research project. There are two main versions…
https://medium.com/advice-and-help-in-authoring-a-phd-or-non-fiction/doing-a-quick-literature-review-f94700f947ce
* Homepage
* Writing For Research
* some observers
* Systematic reviews
* adept at mis-describing
* Schopenhauer
* Google Scholar
* Google Books
* Google Scholar Citations
* academic hermit
* varying citation rates
* Google Scholar Metrics
* World of Science
* Scopus
* topic-focused resources
* PubMed
* plusone
* Arxiv
* EUROPP
* ResearchGate
* Zotero
* Mendeley
* he Impact of the Social Sciences
* the Kindle edition
* read the first chapter for free
* other free materials are here
* @Write4Research
* LSE Impact blog
Every researcher and academic is like a one-person ‘start-up company’ to begin with, especially during their doctorate and possibly into their early post-doc phase. Indeed, perhaps researchers are…
https://medium.com/advice-and-help-in-authoring-a-phd-or-non-fiction/assessing-your-research-and-publication-choices-316a36d28263
* business model canvas
* Mary Douglas
* achieving external impacts from academic work
* academic blogs
* not being an academic hermit
* attracting citations
* @Write4Research
* the LSE’s Impact blog
There two major models for structuring an academic paper: 1. the conventional model; and 2. the design model. Whatever method you use, it is important to set it up right, and plan your paper…
https://medium.com/@write4research/structuring-and-writing-academic-papers-5ccae16c33a4
* storyboarding research
* second
* The impact of social sciences
* here
A Deep Season Begins Now that we're entrenched in spring I can indulge one of my favored deep work training routines: listening to baseball on the
http://calnewport.com/blog/2017/04/21/listen-to-baseball-on-the-radio-with-a-book/?utm_source=feedburner
* that I’ve written about the neuronal benefits of FM fandom
* Feches
Boring Advice Earlier this summer, the beloved writer Neil Gaiman was a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote The View from the Cheap Seats. At
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After the messy first draft. After the revision where you’ve checked the order of the paragraphs and the headings to make sure the sequence of material is what you want. After the revision where yo…
https://patthomson.net/2016/11/14/tinkering-with-text/
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There are two sides to singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls: the “just sitting” meditator and the crazed composer. What side wins when they duke it out? Read what Amanda writes in the Shambhala Sun: "When I meditate, I do not have a hard time letting go of films, grudges, or...
https://www.google.se/amp/www.lionsroar.com/amanda-palmer-on-melody-vs-meditation/amp/
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This is guest post by Ninna Meier and Charlotte Wegener, both Associate Professors at Aalborg University, in the Department of Sociology and Social Work and the Department of Communication res…
https://patthomson.net/2016/11/17/writing-friends/
* wrote a paper together
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There are two sides to singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls: the “just sitting” meditator and the crazed composer. What side wins when they duke it out? Read what Amanda writes in the Shambhala Sun: "When I meditate, I do not have a hard time letting go of films, grudges, or...
http://www.lionsroar.com/amanda-palmer-on-melody-vs-meditation/
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There are two sides to singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls: the “just sitting” meditator and the crazed composer. What side wins when they duke it out? Read what Amanda writes in the Shambhala Sun: "When I meditate, I do not have a hard time letting go of films, grudges, or...
http://www.lionsroar.com/amanda-palmer-on-melody-vs-meditation/
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Writing a book, from start to finish I by Astrid Bracke
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Astrid Bracke writes on twenty-first-century British fiction and nonfiction, ecocriticism, n...
http://www.phd2published.com/2016/11/10/writing-a-book-from-start-to-finish-i-by-astrid-bracke/
* Astrid Bracke
* AcWriMo 2016.
Writing a book, from start to finish I by Astrid Bracke
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Astrid Bracke writes on twenty-first-century British fiction and nonfiction, ecocriticism, n...
http://www.phd2published.com/2016/11/10/writing-a-book-from-start-to-finish-i-by-astrid-bracke/
* Astrid Bracke
* AcWriMo 2016.
One of the most popular posts on the Thesis Whisperer is How to write 1000 words a day and not go bat shit crazy. Last year a Twitter follower brought to my attention a post called How I went from …
https://thesiswhisperer.com/2015/01/16/how-to-write-10000-words-a-day/
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* In a previous post Peta Freestone and Liam Connell wrote about the ideas behind Thesis Bootcamp
* the work of Rowena Murray
* downloadable cheat sheet which shows you my own Thesis map, generated by the above method
* ANU You Tube channel
* click this link to find out how to get involved in Thesis Bootcamp on campus
* Dr Peta Freestone is available to run Thesis Bootcamp in your university.
* Rachel Aaron’s post ‘How I went from writing 2000 words to 10,000 words a day
* “How to write 1000 words a day and not go bat shit crazy”
* Video testimonials on the ANU Youtube channel
One of the most popular posts on the Thesis Whisperer is How to write 1000 words a day and not go bat shit crazy. Last year a Twitter follower brought to my attention a post called How I went from …
https://thesiswhisperer.com/2015/01/16/how-to-write-10000-words-a-day/
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* In a previous post Peta Freestone and Liam Connell wrote about the ideas behind Thesis Bootcamp
* the work of Rowena Murray
* downloadable cheat sheet which shows you my own Thesis map, generated by the above method
* ANU You Tube channel
* click this link to find out how to get involved in Thesis Bootcamp on campus
* Dr Peta Freestone is available to run Thesis Bootcamp in your university.
* Rachel Aaron’s post ‘How I went from writing 2000 words to 10,000 words a day
* “How to write 1000 words a day and not go bat shit crazy”
* Video testimonials on the ANU Youtube channel
A simple start to a publishing strategy: journal lists by Dave Hare
Dave Hare is currently a part-time lecturer at City University of Hong Kong. His r...
http://www.phd2published.com/2016/11/08/a-simple-start-to-a-publishing-strategy-journal-lists-by-dave-hare/
* AcWriMo 2016
* publishing strategy
* publishing agenda
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* Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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* Surprise
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* post back in 2014
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A simple start to a publishing strategy: journal lists by Dave Hare
Dave Hare is currently a part-time lecturer at City University of Hong Kong. His r...
http://www.phd2published.com/2016/11/08/a-simple-start-to-a-publishing-strategy-journal-lists-by-dave-hare/
* AcWriMo 2016
* publishing strategy
* publishing agenda
* here
* here
* here
* here
* here
* here
* here
* Arts & Humanities Citation Index
* Social Sciences Citation Index
* Surprise
* The Research Whisperer
* post back in 2014
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I’m a knitter. I really like the knitting part of knitting. But I’m much less enamoured of the finishing off stage. I currently have two cardigans needing their buttons sewn on. Mmmmm …I’ll d…
https://patthomson.net/2016/11/07/finishing-off-is-hard-to-do-for-me-anyway/
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There is a pretty sizable “academic self-help” literature out of there of books designed to help you learn the “tricks of the trade” or “finish your dissertation in 10…
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Insight Meditation Center Dharma Practice Days on the Paramis THE PERFECTION OF PATIENCE Khanti-parami Khanti: patience, endurance, forbearance, forgi...
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It’s very common to read academic texts, particularly thesis chapters, which present themselves to the reader as a series of blocks of stuff. Each big block of stuff may well be divided up into sma…
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Morning Feature: The Empathy Gap, Part III - Discussing Objections (Non-Cynical Saturday)
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A Deliberate Morning This morning I finished my notes for an upcoming lecture in my graduate-level theory of computation course. There are two points I
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To be without a reference point is the ultimate loneliness. It is also called enlightenment. Thoughts on Buddhism and loneliness.
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In this excerpt from "Discussions on Youth", SGI President Daisaku Ikeda discusses the concept of love from a Buddhist perspective.
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Listening with the heart of a Buddha One of the practices that my heart teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, stresses is listening deeply. This kind of listening involves the whole heart and complete presenc…
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