Listening

I challenge you to do 2 things...

1.) See how long you can keep eye contact with someone while they are talking to you.

2.) Figure out which of the following listening styles is the biggest problem for you and work on it for the next week.

Spacing out: Ignoring someone who is talking to us because our mind is wandering off in our own thoughts.

Pretend Listening: Not paying to much attention to someone and making remarks like, "uh-huh," and "yeah."

Selective Listening: Paying attention only to the pieces of the conversation that is interesting to you.

Word Listening: Only listening to the words a person is saying and not watching their body language, tone of voice or meaning behind the words.

Self-Centered Listening: Probing, judging, advising. Only seeing things from own point of view instead of putting ourselves in someone else's shoes.

Definitions of the week:
"Listen: hear, pay attention, be attentive, attend, concentrate; keep one's ears open"

"Genuine: authentic, real, actual, original, bona fide, true, veritable; attested, undisputed, sincere, honest, truthful, straightforward, direct, frank, candid, open; artless, natural, unaffected"