7 Habits of Highly successful Teens
Habit 5
5. Seek First to Understand, and Then to be
Understood
Because most people don’t listen very well,
one of the great frustrations in life is that many don’t feel understood? This
habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skill there
is: active listening.
Why is this habit the key to communication?
It’s because the deepest need of the human heart is to be understood. Everyone
wants to be respected and valued for who they are—a unique, one-of-a-kind,
never to be cloned individual. People won’t expose the soft middles unless that
feels genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will
tell you more, than you may want to hear. People don’t care how much you know
until they know how much you care,
Listen with your eyes, heart, and ears. 7
percent of communication is contained in the words we use. The rest comes from
body language (53 percent) and how we say words, or the tone and feeling
reflected in our voice (40 percent). Most people are eager to talk and had
rather talk than listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should
listen twice as much as we talk. We actually learn more while listening rather
than we talk. Learn to listen and listen to learn.
Listen, really listen, for understanding.
Seek first to understand then to be
understood—LISTEN.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!
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