In revisiting part 1 of our series, effective listening is really about gathering information and the trick is in focusing your attention in a way to acquire the appropriate information. So what is the appropriate information? To help focus your mind let’s define “appropriate information” as whatever information will help advance your own interests in [...]
Due to the harsh realities of the world and the undeniable necessity to have a mentally stable “human” in order to pass genes on from generation to generation, the evolution of a mind that can ward off negative emotion is one of the end results…
There are five major factors that are working constantly to assure [...]
Literally, the most difficult challenge in communication is in ACCURATELY representing the concept or feeling that you are. Without extensive analysis and research, the average person is completely unaware of how INACCURATELY they are communicating their thoughts.
Thanks to evolved processes such as heuristics, metaphoric and analogical, stereotypes and predictive categorization that occur during experiential and [...]
