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The Power of Listening After Asking ‘How Are You?’

What happened when I looked outside of my noisy head

Paul Ollinger
Forge
Published in
3 min readJun 18, 2020

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On a recent walk around the block, I saw my neighbor, Ted, coming the other way.

Ted and I are friendly, but don’t know each other that well. I threw out a “Hey buddy!” but didn’t break stride. While…

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Paul Ollinger
Forge
Writer for

Comedian. Host of the Crazy Money podcast. Proud former Facebook and Yahoo! sales person/leader. http://PaulOllinger.com/podcast