Attentive listening without judging is itself a rare gift

Evidence

Be respectful of the answers. You don’t need to set clever interventions, give tips, or solve the other person’s problems. Asking a good question and listening attentively to the answer without interrupting and without judging the answer is already a precious, rare gift. Listening to understand, not just to have a pause to prepare your own arguments. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 439

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the distinction between listening to understand versus listening merely to pause before arguing.
• XREF: Directly parallels the listening discipline discussed in Deep Listening and the interaction ritual of attentive attention. — connects to: Hermeneutics requires both suspicion and attentive listening — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 6814