UOG Horizons: Knowledge for Life - New Year’s resolution: Listen to silence

UOG Horizons: Knowledge for Life - New Year’s resolution: Listen to silence

UOG Horizons: Knowledge for Life - New Year’s resolution: Listen to silence


12/30/2025

Gerhard Schwab
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As I consider my New Year’s resolutions for 2026, I find myself reflecting on a few books I first read more than 50 years ago during my early college years in Austria. Although life has changed dramatically since then - we had no computers, no internet, no mobile phones - many of those old books still hold valuable lessons for how we live our lives here on Guam today.

As a young college student, I was fascinated by Pragmatics of Human Communication by Paul Watzlawick, published in 1967. Reading it again now, as a professor of social work, half a century later, is even more fascinating

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