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 is 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 their soft
middles unless they feel genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it
however, they may tell you more than you might want to hear. People won’t care
how much they 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 rather than listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means
this means we should listen twice as much as we should talk. We actually learn
more while listening rather than when we talk.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!
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