Welcome back everybody, I'm your host Greg McEwan and I am here on this journey with you

to learn how to design a life that really matters.

When was the last time that you were having a conversation with someone, only to look

up and find that they weren't listening at all?

Instead they've been pulled into one of their devices.

What did you feel in that moment?

Was it mildly irritating or did it trigger something deeper, something beyond mere frustration?

Even if you didn't say it out loud, there was some serious withdrawal that's gone on inside.

Many of us think of this moment as being trivial, whether it's happened to us or whether

we've done it to somebody else, but this is wrong.

What we know now is that the need to be understood, to be seen, to be known is so jugular

that even these small errors in communication between people can significantly impact both

the quality of those relationships but also the quality of our own lives.

This is part two of a multi-part series about the relentless elimination of noise.

By the end of this episode you will be better able to eliminate the noise in your conversations.

Let's get to it.

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Years ago I was visiting Stanford University, I was at one of the work stations, thinking

deeply writing, and a colleague of mine who I hadn't seen for years stopped by, tapped

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