Coaches Corner: Generous Listening Challenge
March 23, 2017
TRANSCRIPT
Leslie's Coaches Corner this month is on generous listening.
And we're gonna pick a subject that's a little bit more difficult than listening to the people that you really care about and like. We're going to make this a Generous Listening Challenge.
You may have noticed that sometimes there are people that are harder for you to listen to. And that can come into play because you have what we call that automatic listening. Its that bucket on your hip. Remember the bucket on your hip where you already know certain things about them and you're right about the things that you know about them. And as soon as they do that thing that you know they're gonna do, you throw it in the bucket. And you continue to gather evidence. So we do in our listening, those things are already there.
My challenge to you is to dump those things out of the bucket and generously listen to that person.
Pick a person that you have a hard time listening to, and get into a very neutral place where you are centered, you're open, and you're able to listen to what they're saying and let go of all that automatic listening.
