Another quality, possibly a corollary, is a willingness to listen without demanding context because they can fill that in from what you've said in the past! Following leaps from one subject to another, as they come.
That said, I do have a friend who occasionally speaks in such oblique and cryptic terms that I absolutely must pull her up short and demand context because otherwise I just won't know what we're discussing.
[That said, I am always glad to have my friends question my data and context because I am such an unreliable witness, even unto myself...]
Attentiveness
Another quality, possibly a corollary, is a willingness to listen without demanding context because they can fill that in from what you've said in the past! Following leaps from one subject to another, as they come.
That said, I do have a friend who occasionally speaks in such oblique and cryptic terms that I absolutely must pull her up short and demand context because otherwise I just won't know what we're discussing.
[That said, I am always glad to have my friends question my data and context because I am such an unreliable witness, even unto myself...]