Yo, today's QOTS. If your mouth is open, you're not learning. Here we go.

Welcome back to the QOTS. I'm your host, Sean Crox and Sean Crox and

.com. It's throwback Thursday and we return and back that clock all the way to episode number

544 and our feature speaker Celeste, Headley. Today's talk is very, very important.

We have to listen up very, very closely. Why? Because there are many things to be divided

over these days. We've got mask, no mask. We've got black lives matter. We've got

all lives matter and campaign rallies are about to start up again. And we're about to go

into this election and we've got two people with very, very different ideas and we're

going to cling to those ideas and we're going to fight over those ideas if we allow

ourselves to. Don't forget 2016, 2017, Facebook, social media was out of control.

People unfollowing each other because they didn't believe the same thing. Instead of

learning from each other and just discussing things and trying to understand each other

better, trying to understand our points of view or just simply listening to each other,

we shut each other out. And if we're not careful, we're going to do that whole

thing over again. And so what Celeste is going to do, she's going to encourage us to

actually have real conversations. She's going to give you her 10 best tips for having

more authentic conversations, for becoming better listeners, for learning from each

other so we don't go down that road that we went down in 2017. Here Celeste.

Alright, I want to see a show of hands. How many of you have an unfriended someone on

Facebook because they said something offensive about politics or religion, child care, food?

And how many of you know at least one person that you avoid because you just don't want to talk to them?

You know, it used to be that in order to have a polite conversation, we just had to follow the

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