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Talk, Interrupted
1969-12-31 17:59:59
A subscriber writes:"One of my pet peeves is when I'm speaking to someone and they constantly end my sentences for me without allowing me to complete the sentence myself. I guess that they want me to talk faster converse to one of your earlier topics on "talking slowly". I don't feel isolated because I watch them do it to everybody to whom they are speaking. (listening). I'd be interested in reading your comments on this topic. Is this a common trait?"Common trait? Unfortunately, yes. Not necessarily completing the speaker's sentences, but certainly interrupting the flow before the speaker has finished. Sentence-completers? Maybe 5-10%. Interrupters? Closer to 40 to 50%. So I have observed.These habits, like others, are performed largely out of awareness, I believe. People interrupt because they are overeager and impatient, or because they are not listening and only waiting for an opportunity to seize their turn. Good listeners rarely interrupt before you've finished with your tho ...
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Show 388 Saturday 26 May
1969-12-31 17:59:59
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Learning To Listen
1969-12-31 17:59:59
by Laura DavisIn a culture which honors "doing," multi-tasking and filling in all the empty spaces in the day, the art of listening has been all but lost. Even in the best of circumstances, listening is hard and when people feel angry, hurt, or feeling backed into a corner, the difficulty magnifies.Fortunately, you don't have to be good at listening in order to become better at it. Listening is a discipline. Like playing scales on a piano, the more you work at it, the better you become. All it takes is a clear intention and the willingness to practice.It's best to start with conversations in which you don't have a lot at stake--a neighbor you're chatting with over the fence or an old friend you bump into at the grocery store. Observe where your mind goes when you are supposedly listening. Pay attention to how frequently you think of the past or the future, how often you are busy planning your next sentence rather than hearing what is being said. Notice how quickly and incorrigibly ...
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Discarding Useless Conversation Habits
1969-12-31 17:59:59
People make many resolutions to start the new year: Lose weight, save money, exercise more. How about breaking some weak conversational habits and installing some better new ones? With these, you'll be able to notice the differences immediately.The ones worth discarding are the ones that inhibit effective and satisfying conversation. These are often so automatic that folks aren't aware of how dysfunctional they are. Here are some I recommend for the discard pile:1. Take-aways. Pulling the attention to yourself by using the other person's content as a launching pad for your own stuff. For example, when I recently returned to my aerobics group after two weeks holiday in Hawaii (where I had lived for over 30 years), I had barely got the word "Hawaii" out of my mouth before others told me of the cruise they took to Hawaii in 1996, or that their son-in-law had once been stationed in Hawaii.. No chance for me to describe my recent experience; only a chance to listen to them. This "me-too" ...
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Conversational Habits and Routines
1969-12-31 17:59:59
Our conversational styles are patterned, the result of local culture and personal habit. So much so, in fact, that they define us more than do our hairstyles and apparel, which are much easier to change.Some of our routines add to our conversational effectiveness and some do not. For example, the habit of asking your fellow converser to ?tell me more? is almost always helpful in getting more detail and nuance. On the other hand, the habit of abruptly changing the subject is often disconcerting and rarely helpful.Why do persons continue with the same conversational routines, even if those routines are ineffective? Well, habits are almost always out-of-awareness and, even when brought to one's attention, are hard to break. You can observe that almost no one drives a different route to work unless forced to do so by bottlenecks and road construction. Changing any habit requires effort, more awareness and attention, more work and more energy. Habits by their nature are automatic and follo ...
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Show 387 Friday 25 May
1969-12-31 17:59:59
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Show 386 Thursday 24 May
1969-12-31 17:59:59
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Show 377 Tuesday 15 May
1969-12-31 17:59:59
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Show 378 Wednesday 16 May
1969-12-31 17:59:59
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Show 376 Monday 14 May
1969-12-31 17:59:59
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Show 375 Sunday 13 May
1969-12-31 17:59:59
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Show 374 Saturday 12 May
1969-12-31 17:59:59
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Show 379 Thursday 17 May
1969-12-31 17:59:59
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