How do you listen?
Do you listen to understand or to reply?
Do you listen to convince?
Is what you have understood the same as what the other
person meant?
Do you let your emotions get in the way?
Is your inner critic on when listening?
A brief, basic guide on how to listen:
- When listening empty your mind of assumptions and judgment
- Listen to connect
- Listen to learn and understand
- Ask questions for which you have no answers
- Be present
- Tune it
- Listen with an open mind
- Listen with an open heart
- Appreciate
- Summarize
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the province of wisdom to listen." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
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