A question to reflect on: What might you hear if you listened a little more slowly?A good listener listens slowly to what is being said.
He does not jump ahead nor does he rush to judge nor does he sit there formulating his own reply.
He focuses directly on what is being said. He listens to more than is being said.
He extracts the maximum information from what he hears by looking between the words used and wondering why something has been expressed in a particular way.
It is active listening because the listener’s imagination is full of ‘could be’ and ‘may be’ elaborations.
Credit: Edward de Bono
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