Listening
Don’t underestimate the power of thinking, your own and others. Don’t underestimate the power of listening, your own and others. Be willing to risk experimenting with listening even more and talking even less. Beautiful things will happen.
Carolyn Freyer-Jones • The Total Coaching Success Book: Everything You Need Internally and Externally to Create a Financially Successful Coaching Business
Listening is a leadership skill that has to be developed. It is about respecting others and yourself enough so that you can put yourself, your company, your family, in position to win.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
So, someone who listens obviously has many advantages that others do not have, among them: being able to discriminate between what someone says and what he or she really means; being able to absorb necessary information in making decisions; being able to act and interact in a positive and empowering way with others. In all my years as an active lis
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Documentary filmmaker Valarie Kaur on listening:
“Deep listening is an act of surrender. We risk being changed by what we hear.
When I really want to hear another person’s story, I try to leave my preconceptions at the door and draw close to their telling. I am always partially listening to the thoughts in my own head when others are speaking, so I c... See more
“Deep listening is an act of surrender. We risk being changed by what we hear.
When I really want to hear another person’s story, I try to leave my preconceptions at the door and draw close to their telling. I am always partially listening to the thoughts in my own head when others are speaking, so I c... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: Pushing yourself, listening, and a simple rule for life and work
“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
Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Listening deeply to another is a form of meditation. We become aware of our breathing, follow it, and practice concentration, and we learn things about the other person that we never knew before. When we practice deep listening, we can help the person we’re listening to remove the wrong perceptions that are making them suffer. We can restore harmon
... See moreThich Nhat Hanh • How to Fight (Mindfulness Essentials)
a mental voice saying, “Hurry up and finish talking so I can tell you what I think”—which interferes with tranquil, attentive listening.
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. ~Ernest Hemi
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