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LEARNING, LIKE LISTENING, IS A STATE OF MIND

Learning, Like Listening, Is A State Of Mind.

Reviewers have written:

“What the book ‘The Secret’ is to intention, ‘Listen, Learn, Share’ is to positive thought process and awareness.”

“Liked James R. Martin new book “Listen, Learn, and Share”. An impressive collaboration of eastern and western thinking, there is much to learn from it about the world .”

“The stated purpose of this book is to share some simple truths to help people along their life paths. The book delivers on this purpose in a clear, gentle, and compelling way, providing many helpful insights into how to think about and consider our thoughts and feelings...”

 

 

 

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It’s very easy to lose or shut down your learning ability. You can’t grow or make changes to your life if you’re not listening. Without listening and learning you keep creating similar outcomes, which are not always what you desire.

It’s like the sound of a recording, a word or note, stuck on the same glitch in the track, repeating itself endlessly, unable to get passed the glitch.

You can’t reset the recording if you don’t hear the glitch. You can’t move ahead if your tires are spinning.

You need to stop looking in the rear-view mirror, while you try to drive forward.

Listen, Learn, Share is a book that will help you get unstuck. It explores this phenomenon, exposing the causes of not moving forward, as it reveals how to move your mind into the present.

Available on Amazon.com – print or digital

 

 

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LISTEN LEARN SHARE by James R Martin

I was inspired to write Listen Learn Share by the realization that my work as a teacher, documentary filmmaker, writer and storyteller were actually all the same vocation. They all required me to Listen Learn and Share.

Everyone has the potential to listen and learn and then share, but it isn’t that easy. I realized that listening was an art and that in certain situations, like doing an interview for a documentary or news article, it was important to know how and what to listen for, in that situation. After writing, Actuality Interviewing and Listening, which gets in to specific listening techniques useful for many interviewing situations, I decided to look deeper into the subject. I found that listening goes hand in hand with learning and sharing. The three actions are bound together in a reinforcing circuit.

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I also found that the Buddhist concept of mindfulness achieved through various forms of meditation was the key to understanding the relationship between the three corners of the triangular circuit.

Listen Learn Share goes beyond my personal experience to look at listening, learning and sharing from many different standpoints including science, psychology and philosophy. It shows how practicing mindful listening, learning and sharing can improve your life in many ways beyond the simple definitions for each word of the book title.

In many ways listening, learning and sharing is practicing mindfulness in a practical everyday way.

Listen Learn Share is available in print or digital versions on Amazon.com or Apple iBooks.

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Actuality Interviewing and Listening by James R Martin

A film or video documentary usually has two primary components: action and interviews. Of course music and effects also play a role in telling the nonfiction story. But interviewing takes the place of dialog in a fiction film, so it serves the same function in a medium that relies on action to keep an audience engaged.

Actuality Interviewing and Listening techniques allow the subject or subjects of a documentary or nonfiction film to tell their own story in a first person narration. A third person voice over narrator may not be needed. Actuality Interviewing is a form of conducting interviews that relies heavily on the interviewer’s ability to truly listen to the interviewees and to know when to ask the right question. Communication occurs on more levels than what is spoken.

Many people think that they are listening to another person or listening to a piece of music, while they are also thinking about a conversation they had earlier that day or what they are going to say next. Listening requires more than basic attention to someone speaking.

Actuality Interviewing and Listening explores the connection between conducting an interview and listening on all levels. Anyone who conducts interviews or gives interviews, for any reason, will benefit from reading this book.

Available from Amazon.com in print or digital. 

Also available from Apple iBooks

 

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