![]() ![]() After all, one of our most basic human needs is to be understood. Of course, through my own work and oodles of observations and learning, I’ve realised that this could have been totally misinterpreted and that had I asked more open questions of others, it would have given them the opportunity to share more about themselves. I felt if I was talking it took the pressure off them. ![]() It’s not intentionally to seek the limelight, or make people laugh but I think it has been a learned behaviour to make others feel at ease. I know that I am apt to talk a lot! I’ve always been a chatty person. By paying full attention, listening with our ears and eyes we can start to really understand what the person is talking about, and become more empathetic towards their points of view. ![]() How many times do we hog a conversation because we want to get our thoughts and ideas, knowledge and skills across to others to show a different perspective on a particular subject? Could it even be that we want to prove that they are wrong and we are right?! Yet when we stop being on transmit and start to listen fully to the other person we hear what they say as well as how they feel. However, it was this quote by the Dalai Lama, that I settled on. Stephen Covey’s ‘seek first to understand and then be understood’ or Winnie the Pooh telling us to be patient when someone isn’t listening because that person may have some fluff in their ear. As we’re on L in our alphabet series, I was spoilt for choice with the number of quotes that flashed through my mind about listening. ![]()
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