Shelley Johnson
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Well, your story is the exclamation point.
It puts everything top of mind.
It gets people's attention right away, which sometimes you have to do that.
Hey, I need your attention here.
And people will go, wow, we want to learn from this lady because very few people can talk about this.
I mean, I don't know what the survival rate is of falling out of the sky without a parachute, but...
Yeah.
There's a reason why you survived, and you're sharing that with the rest of the world.
And yes, I think maybe your story is there to get people's attention so they really listen to your message, you know?
Yeah.
Human beings don't listen well.
It's like they have stuff in their ears.
You need to clean out their ears.
It's like, hello, hello, are you listening?
Please, you know?
Very true.
Yes.
We're very bad active listeners.
It isn't something that we're taught.
We're more concerned with, oh, I want to figure out how I'm going to respond to this so I sound really good.