Poet Yahia Lababidi on the power of listening:
“A good listener is one who helps us overhear ourselves.”
“A good listener is one who helps us overhear ourselves.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: Opportunity Cost, Power of Listening, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves | James Clear
takes training, focus, and the ability to create silence in the soul to learn how to listen, whether to God or to a fellow human being.
Jonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
“The quality of your conversations is greatly dependent on the quality of your listening.”
Ryan Holiday • 21 Powerful Life Lessons From My Mentor (George Raveling) - RyanHoliday.net
He described reading a book as being “in conversation” with the author. But reading has the added benefit of allowing you to concentrate deeply, move as fast or as slowly through an argument or idea as you want, and formulate and reformulate your thoughts as you move through the text.
Like a good improv comedian, a good conversationalist controls her impatience and listens to learn, rather than to respond. That means she’ll wait for the end of the other person’s comment, and then pause for a few beats to consider how to respond to what’s been said,