Great post. I sometimes actually catch myself not listening when someone else is talking, and then I restrain myself to give them a chance to say what they have to say. Many's the time that doing that, ended up with me realizing there was no argument at all. I've gotten better at this with age. :)
exactly brother... I think I was there myself just today... I was about to react in objection, let my friend finish the thought and next thing you know we actually agreed the whole time.. it was in this case semantics.