Seanwes Podcast

I recently read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Habit 5 fundamentally changed my life: Seek first to understand then to be understood. Specifically, the principle within this chapter, Empathic Listening, is what rocked me. I've often lamented that most people in conversations are not listening but instead waiting to talk. They're not listeners, they're wait-to-talkers. Two people take turns talking at each other and later say they had a conversation. Whether this constitutes a conversation is up for debate, but no actual communication took place. Communication is the sending and receipt of a message. If you're broadcasting and no one is receiving, are you communicating? I make it no secret that I value effective communication. While I knew I wasn't perfect, I certainly thought I was doing at least a decent job of listening. I was wrong. I couldn't have been more wrong. What I learned, and will share with you today regarding the principle of Empathic Listening, showed me that I was not listen