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What do you understand about Active Listening?
Most people think active listening is about hearing words.
It isn't.
It's about becoming curious enough to leave your own perspective for a moment.
Every conversation is filtered through invisible layers: language, culture, education, profession, gender, age, memory, emotion, and context. By the time someone's words reach you, they've already traveled a long way.
So have yours.
That's why communication breaks down so easily.
Not because people aren't listening.
Because they're listening from different worlds.
Active listening isn't a technique for saying the right thing.
It's the willingness to suspend certainty.
To ask one more question.
To resist correcting.
To let someone finish the story before deciding what it means.
The paradox is that the less attached you are to being understood, the more likely the other person is to understand you.
Understanding doesn't begin with speaking.
It begins with making room for someone else's reality.
What did you take away from this?
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What do you understand about Active Listening?
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