Listening is an Act of Love

I recently saw a comment online about how someone wasn't really listening but waiting to respond. It's a hard thing to truly listen to a person without thinking of yourself. I was really struck by the part of Listening is an Act of Love where the author described that while recording the first Ghettolife 101 the microphone gave LeAlan the license to ask questions. While the microphone does this I think that it also gives or forces a person to listen. When you are unable (or not supposed) to talk for a period of time it eventually forces you to stop thinking of responses and just start listening. It seems that other people in the article felt the same way. Many of them ended up bringing person after person into StoryCorps to hear what they had to say. Perhaps then interviewing will help force me into listening instead of waiting to respond.