Why Listening Well Can Make Disagreements Less Damaging
You should be what I call open-minded and assertive at the same time—you should hold and explore conflicting possibilities in your mind while moving fluidly toward whatever is likely to be true based on what you learn. Some people can do this easily while others can’t. A good exercise to make sure that you are doing this well is to describe back to
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When we listen autobiographically—with our own perspective as our frame of reference—we tend to respond in one of four ways: 1) Evaluate: agree or disagree with what is said; 2) Probe: Ask questions from our own frame of reference; 3) Advise: Give counsel based on our own experience; and 4) Interpret: Project motives and behavior based on our motiv
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