Communcation: Listening
November 11th 2006 11:19
Listening is one of the core aspects of communication. It's quite hard to do for most of the people, but the poin that people don't see is that it's the very core of any long-lasting friendship.
a. First of all to listen to someone, you must think that he says something worth hearing. You may see something in common between you and him/her and you are enthusiastic about hearing what he/she will say. That's a good start.
b. Let him/her speak. Give her/him time to express his ideas, feelings, thoughts about anything. Hear and listen.
c. Try to nderstand him/her. From what he/she says, try to find his/her motives, and general his idea of life and friendship. Try to understand his ideas, and try to learn how he/she sees the world. Be in your friend's shoes.
Listening is only one side of the communication. Next, we'll move on to Speaking.
a. First of all to listen to someone, you must think that he says something worth hearing. You may see something in common between you and him/her and you are enthusiastic about hearing what he/she will say. That's a good start.
b. Let him/her speak. Give her/him time to express his ideas, feelings, thoughts about anything. Hear and listen.
c. Try to nderstand him/her. From what he/she says, try to find his/her motives, and general his idea of life and friendship. Try to understand his ideas, and try to learn how he/she sees the world. Be in your friend's shoes.
Listening is only one side of the communication. Next, we'll move on to Speaking.
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If you think listening is easy, then you must be a good friend. Almost all the relationship I've seen troubled, is because of the communication breakdown, mostly because of NOT listening to the other.