7 habits highly successful teens

Habit 5

5. seek first understand, and then to be understood

Because most people don’t listen very well, one of the great frustrations in life is that many don’t feel understood. This habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skill there is: active listening.

Why is this habit the key to communication? It’s because the deepest need of the human heart is to be understood. Everyone  wants to be respected and valued for who they are—a unique, one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-cloned individual. People won’t expose their soft middles unless they feel genuine love and understanding. once they feel it, however they will tell you more that you may want to hear. People  don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Listen with yur eyes, heart, and ears. 7 percent of communication is contained in the words we use. The rest comes from body language (53 percent) and how we say words, or the tone and feeling reflected in our voice(40 percent).

Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk that listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. We actually learn more while listening rather then when we talk. Learn. Listen, really, listen, for understanding seek first to understand then to be understood—listen.

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