Blinkist: der einfachste Weg, mehr zu wissen

If you want to increase the sense of connection, experiment with listening to the person with ‘nothing on your mind’.

The natural consequence of active listening is that it focuses your mind on the perspective of others, rather than on your perception of yourself. When all of your energy is channeled into truly understanding what someone else is saying, there’s simply no room left to worry about how you look or sound.

Talk about their life instead of your idea Ask about specifics in the past instead of generics or opinions about the future Talk less and listen more

The good listener knows that we’d ideally move – via conversation with another person – from a confused, agitated state of mind to one that was more focused and (hopefully) more serene. Together with them, we’d work out what was really at stake. But in reality this tends not to happen, because there isn’t enough of an awareness of the desire and ne