Antti Eloranta

…th actively listening to and affirming what the opponent’s beliefs are, then finding common ground. “The major barrier to mutual interpersonal communication is our very natural tendency to judge, to evaluate, to approve or disapprove, the statement of the other person or the other group.”- Carl Rogers, “Communication: Its Blocking and Its Facilitation,” 1951

“Rogers’s goal, then, was to avoid this tendency to constantly evaluate and instead to “listen with understanding.” By this, he meant that people should not only try to understand that someone holds a particular view…