If you're the one setting up a meeting, crafting an agenda in advance helps you to clarify the objective and to determine who should be participating. Here's how to do it:<ol><li>Preface your invite with necessary information every attendee needs to digest before the meeting.</li><li>Pair agenda topics with a timeline and a responsible person.</li><li>State the desired outcome of the meeting (e.g. make a decision).</li></ol>If you stick to it, the drafting of your agenda should clearly show you a) if a meeting is really necessary and b) who should be included - and who shouldn't.

Use Your Meeting Agenda As A Quality Gate

I don't want to contribute in meeting clutter and this tips really helped me to avoid it!

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Rats that have been physically tortured have nightmares — evidenced by increased heart rates, breathing and the waking up right before they renter R.E.M sleep.Interestingly, rats that have witnessed the torture of their fellow animals also tend to have bad dreams.

The Rat's Nightmare

It's just the brute fact that they dream that, in my view, has these pretty fundamental moral implications. It means that those animals have moral interests that we are obliged to take into consideration. And those can include their interest in not being harmed, their interest in continuing to live, their interest in cultivating and pursuing their own life projects unimpeded by human action, and so on.

Moral Implications

<ul><li>When a songbird sings, a particular pattern shows up in it's brain activity.</li><li>This exact same pattern can be found when a bird is sleeping, hence suggesting that it dreams of singing in it's sleep. </li></ul>

The Bird That Sings In It's Dream

I often wonders what my dog dreams about when her legs are running in her sleep. 

What nonhuman animals experience while sleeping can be called dreaming, philosopher David Peña-Guzmán writes in a new book. This impacts how we should think about their interior lives.

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Do Animals Dream?

Reflect the speaker's emotion, not the content. That way, you let them guide the conversation.

Reflecting Responses: How To

It makes conversation much more interesting if you really try to dive deeper

Tips for being good, better, or the very best at listening. (This might be particularly helpful for people with social anxiety.)

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Do Animals Dream?

Being an Excellent Listener Is All About Empathy

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