I got the following quote today and wanted to share:<\/p>\n
Most of us were born Dr. Ralph Nichols, Research at the –Chuck Swindoll<\/em><\/p>\n I often wonder if communicators (including myself) are cognizant of where the hearers are. In my own journey to becoming a great communicator I have learned that the speaking and the listening are both essential in connecting with others-in career and personal life.<\/p>\n By the way, if you want to test your speaking and listening skills, go spend some time with children and test your results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got the following quote today and wanted to share: Most of us were born hearing well, but all of us must learn to listen well. Listening is a skill, an art that is in need of being cultivated. Dr. Ralph Nichols, considered by many to be an authority on the subject, believes that we…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhearing well, but all of us must learn to listen <\/em>well. Listening is a
\nskill, an art that is in need of being cultivated.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n
\nconsidered by many to be an authority on the subject, believes that we think
\nfour, perhaps five, times faster than we talk. This means that if a speaker
\nutters one hundred twenty words a minute, the audience thinks at about five
\nhundred words a minute. That difference offers a strong temptation to listeners
\nto take mental excursions . . . to think about last night's bridge game or
\ntomorrow's sales report or the need to get that engine tune-up before next
\nweekend's trip to the mountains . . . then phase back into the speaker's
\ntalk.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n
\nUniversity of Minnesota reveals that in listening to a ten-minute talk, hearers
\noperate at only a twenty-eight percent efficiency. And the longer the talk, the
\nless we understand, the less we track with our ears what somebody's mouth is
\nsaying.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n