While in a meeting today and it occurred to me that during my life as a psychiatrist I came to realize that people who have considerable AA experience listen in a different way than other folks.  But I also remember that a monk said there is a total difference between listening with intention and listening with  attention.  So I put those things together and came up with the idea people learn to listen if they attended more than just a few meetings in their lifetime then they have listened and listened again.  One has to realize that this thing cannot be detected as such but we often realize which later when somebody has really heard us.  So for all the credits that are given to Bill W and the other founders to me the real credit lies with the listener who listens again and again with attention but without trying to make anything out of it.