Are you listening? Learn how to listen to your mind, body and more. Listening is a state of mind rather than a tool by itself. Listening is more than what is heard via sound waves entering the ears.Listen Learn Share goes beyond personal experience to look at listening, learning and sharing from many different standpoints including science, psychology and philosophy. It shows how practicing mindful listening, learning and sharing can improve your life in many ways beyond the simple definitions for each word of the book title.This story draws from the authors forty-six years of teaching, making documentaries, and writing. The book explains how the notion of listening, learning and sharing works, its roots in mindfulness and how the reader can use these methods to benefit their own lives and the lives of others in very practical and mutually beneficial ways.Have you ever asked yourself questions like: "Why does this always happen to me?" I'm successful but why am I not happy? Why is life so stressful? Why do certain things make me so angry? What causes rage? What is blocking my progress? This book will help you to answer these frustrating questions and others, as it takes you on a step-by-step journey exploring ideas about how the human mind works and how listening, learning and sharing can resolve these issues.Listen Learn Share is a story inspired by a question. "If you had to choose just one of the things you do, would you choose teaching, making documentaries, or writing?" His answer to the question surprised the author. He realized they were all the same experience so there was no need to choose. His life was listening, learning and sharing. It did not matter what form it took, it was all the same practice.
About the Author: James R. (Jim) Martin is an Emmy, award winning Producer, Writer, Director of Film, Television, Video, Multimedia and Digital Media Productions. He was Director of the Documentary Filmmaking Course at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida for twenty years. Prior to this Professor Martin taught film production at Columbia College in Chicago for 13 years. He also taught Directing at University of Central Florida as adjunct faculty. Credits include two Emmy nominations and an Emmy Award for Nationally aired PBS documentary - Fired-up Public Housing is My Home and Chicago Film Festival, Golden Plaque for Best Network Documentary for Emmy nominee, Wrapped In Steel also seen nationally on PBS stations. 2008 Telly Award of Best Short Documentary on Make-A-Wish Foundation. Professor Martin has worked as an editor, cameraman, producer, writer and director in both film and video production. He has taught film and video production for thirty-three years. And written, produced and directed a feature length fiction film, Public Television documentaries, commercials, feature short films, corporate and industrial films and videos. He is author of Create Documentaries Films, Videos and Multimedia (3rd Edition) and numerous articles and reviews of documentary films (Jrmatinmedia. com). His second book is Actuality Interviewing and Listening.