Good day, amazing people of the Hive Blockchain. Welcome back to my blog. It is another edition in the #hivelearners community on the art of listening.
Listening is one thing I don’t joke with; it is a vital communication skill. Being able to listen to someone is one thing I value so much, but in most cases people who possess this are counsellors. I give it up to them because they are always ready to sit and listen to people share their problems with them. One sweet thing about them is they don’t interpret when their client is speaking to them; they pay close attention to get a piece of information from the client.
The main reason they don’t interpret them is because they want to understand their feelings to enable them to handle the matter. When it comes to listening, it is not for people who are impatient; for you to be a good listener, you must be patient to hear every piece of information because you have to sacrifice your time. The holy book made us understand how important the act of listening is.
The act of listening is very important. Many people have put themselves in problems because they failed to listen before the act. One thing I love about myself is I don’t listen to reply; rather, I listen to understand and reflect before I will respond to anything. When it comes to listening, I am trying my best to improve more. The majority of us lack the act of listening because we jump to conclusions so easily. There are so many decisions we have made in the past because we didn’t listen, and whenever we remember, we just wish our errors could be rewritten.
For us to be a true friend, we must have a good listening spirit. It is not about having the right word to respond but is about listening to the person. Most times what the person needs is just someone who will listen to them and nothing more. I have been in a situation where all I ever needed was someone who I could talk to and who would listen to me without judging me. When it comes to people who give me a listening ear, it is my younger sister. She listens to me without interpreting until I am done talking; at the end, she will advise me, meaning she was following every bit of my story until she was done.
I have to learn to listen to people since someone is always ready to listen to my problems. I have to develop listening skills.
How I was able to develop listening skills.
I put away anything that will bring distractions; once someone is talking to me, I silence my phone and maintain eye-to-eye contact with the person.
I try my best not to interrupt the speaker; I allow him or her to finish before I talk.
I practise active listening; I make sure I repeat most of the things said by the speaker but in my own language.
It is very important that we should patiently listen to people; without interpreting them as a human, you should practise active listening.
This is my entry on the ongoing content #hivelearners #hl-w198e1 topic, the art of listening.
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It's always good to learn to listen someone else deeply if we also have people in our lives who listen to us intentionally.