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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On How To Make Everyone Feel Like They Matter

Name: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On How To Make Everyone Feel Like They Matter
Uploaded: 2022-07-01T19:00:17+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Patrick Biddiscombe
Description: A short excerpt from a talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie emphasizing the need to truly hear each other’s stories and to create a world where everyone…

1 Jul 2022 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie emphasizing the need to truly hear each other’s stories and to create a world where everyone feels they matter. She argues that entrenched habits of not listening have narrowed our ideas and that we must "create more space" and "extend the boundaries" so people are not left behind.

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Sometimes we're held back by what we carry in our head. By what we think should be instead of what actually is. I believe that we can truly hear each other's stories. I believe that we can create a world where everyone truly feels that they matter. But the reason it's difficult to do is because we have long had a world in which we did not hear each other's stories and where everyone did not feel that they truly mattered. And so, to truly hear one another, we need to create more space. We need to extend the boundaries. We need to widen our ideas of everything, or we will be left behind.