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When did we all become so damn serious?

By Shawn Matlock

I was thinking about this the other day, and it was somewhat brought back to me by Mark Bennett's post about being a good listener. At what point did we, as lawyers, become so caught up with ourselves that we tuned the rest of the world out, only to listen to what we thought/ said/ wrote/ believed? We are problem solvers by nature. It's what we do. But why don't we listen to other people? Why can't the everyday Joe off the street, or in the hallway, or in the jury box teach us something? Was it when we were the smartest kid in high school that we believed the myth that we can be so serious? Was it the moment in college that we got the highest test score in our economics/ political theory/ english lit./ art history (so I took art history, so what? I like art...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).