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The Free Book
The Instant Connection
He had a way of listening that made me question everything I had learned before.
At nineteen I walked into a speech class and met a professor who changed the direction of my life — not by talking, but by listening, and by teaching me how to do the same. Three decades later I wrote down what he gave me.
It is a short book with a practice at the centre of it: pick a time, stop for twenty seconds, and say one true thing to yourself. That is all. It works because it is small enough to keep doing.
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Start with a free book. The Instant Connection — a short book on a practice I learned at nineteen from a professor who taught me how to listen. It is free to read and share. Join the list if you would also like a note when a new recording or piece of writing goes up.
Or simply write to me: hello@jeffreyaorr.com
If It Landed
The book goes further
These reflections are threads from a 28½-day diary written nightly at a Virginia ashram — sometimes exhausted, sometimes grieving, sometimes unexpectedly open.