3. You must listen deeply to yourself before you start the process of listening to others.
4. You learn to listen before you learn any other skill – you are a natural born listener at 20 weeks in the womb
5. Ting – Chinese representation of Listening
2. The importance of breathing to help you listen to yourself
3. You must listen deeply to yourself before you start the process of listening to others.
1. 125/400 rule – you and the speaker can only speak 125-150 word per minute, yet your mind can process 400 words per minute – what do you do with the gap between 125 and 400 words?
Listen to silence as you would another word
CONTENT Listen beyond the words look through the 4Ts of time, task, team, thought
10. Context is like the seasoning in your food – it isn’t the meal yet it totally changes how it tastes
10. Like salt on your coffee you only know the context is wrong by drinking it – you can only fully understand the context by listening to it
8. Listen to what is unsaid – what is unsaid says it all
The unsaid will double the impact of the dialogue through exploring all the unsaid
Unspoken
Unconscious
With-held