Improve your listening skills by eliminating these bad habits
One of my favourite Far Side cartoons has two grizzled sailors sitting at the bar; one has a peg leg, the other a peg head. The fellow with the peg leg says to the other, “That’s nothing, let me tell you how I got this.” while pointing to his wooden leg.
In their book, Listen Up : How To Improve Relationships, Reduce Stress
If you want to improve your listening skills, you need to get control over the following bad habits:
- Interrupting the speaker.
- Not looking at the speaker.
- Rushing the speaker and making him feel that he’s wasting the listener’s time.
- Showing interest in something other than the conversation.
- Getting ahead of the speaker and finishing her thoughts.
- Not responding to the speaker’s requests.
- Saying, “Yes, but . . .,” as if the listener has made up his mind.
- Topping the speaker’s story with “That reminds me. . .” or “That’s nothing, let me tell you about. . .”
- Forgetting what was talked about previously.
- Asking too many questions about details.
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