(Location 326 - Kindle Version)Fear drives defensiveness, causing people to listen for agreement rather than insight. When people have such a strong desire to be right, they listen for things they can either agree or disagree with. They don’t listen to learn.
Most of the times we blame the traditional mass media and the social media for manipulating the human minds and thoughts by providing partial and biased information. But are they the only ones to be blamed for that? Do we either knowingly or unknowingly choose to hear only what we want to hear just in order to find agreement to our preoccupied minds? Even though the media give us balanced information, do we avoid what we do not want to hear as they do not go along with our views and beliefs?