6.
Can they listen?
When you encounter people in any kind of setting, from professional to social, they can choose to:
- talk,
- listen, or
- do neither.
- There’s often a bias against listening as part of someone’s skill set—that’s why you will never see it on a resume.
- I’m sure many of you believe it indicates passivity or laziness or some other character flaw.
I think this reaction is a result of mistaking people who do (3) with those who do (2).
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I wish somebody had told me these things when I was younger. I now practice them when I need to get a fast assessment of people I don’t know well.
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