Predatory Listening* Educational-research Binder* Precise Expression & Leg Days*

 

Predatory Listening*

I came across this term in 10% Happier Podcast with Yung Pueblo.  Here's was Google AI says about it:

Predatory listening is a toxic communication habit where someone feigns attention or prompts you to speak, not to understand, but to find flaws, set a trap, or build a rebuttal. It prioritizes the listener's need to "win" over mutual connection. 

Key details of this behavior include:

• The Trap: Listeners often ask questions just to lure the speaker into saying something they can aggressively argue against.
• The Rebuttal: Rather than processing your whole message, the listener selectively tunes in to pick apart specific words or hunt for inconsistencies.
• The Impact: It immediately stifles psychological safety, frequently resulting in defensiveness, gridlock, and the breakdown of trust

Educational-research Binder*

Towards a synthesis of education-related topics.  This is for "collecting" research. Make X pages in a binder. Each "page" or section is about one educationally-related topic... summarize an article.  Each "entry" is a blog post AND part of a synthesis report.  Each "entry" has questions "how to..."  "What is best..."  From Wed July 6, 2016 journal:

Precise Expression & Leg Days* 

(Earlier I was making connections between different types of topics in rhetoric and "leg days" and "core" and "chest days" etc.). What are the long-term writing goals?  Ease of expression, mastery of the basics, powerful expression, precise expression, developed keenness of critical eye, analysis, synthesis, argument. Flexibility! - ability to negotiate the kinds of papers that college profs will throw at them, ability to succeed at SAT, development of the "collegiate attitude" (fairness, accuracy about sources, etc), discussion.  From Wed July 6, 2016 journal: