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1 Diagnose before prescribe
WHAT’S INSIDE
2 4 autobiographical responses
3 4 levels of listening
4 The 5th level ~ emphatic listening
5 4 emphatic listening skills

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Most people,

3.
Even if they
attempt to
understand,

4.
They do so only
with the intent

5.
1
Diagnose before
prescribeIn order to influence, we have to be
influenced.

6.
When we visit an
optometrist,

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What Is the
first Thing That
he will do?

8.
In any field of the
human endeavours,

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To understand
precedes action;

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To understand
precedes judgement.

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Always Seek 1st
To Understand.

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To understand
Without prejudging,

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To understand without
agreeing or disagreeing,

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To understand without
taking any position.

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Simply...

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Just to understand,

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To know where he or
she is coming from.

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2
4 auto-
biographical
responses
The amateur salesman sells products while
the professional sells solutions to needs &
problems.

19.
For most people,

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Autobiographical
responses are...

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Things that they
do when they

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These responses
come naturally
to all of us.

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our own
Autobiographical
responses

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Are the
presumptions
& assumptions
that we make

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Before we fully
understand the
communication.

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Often, that Limits
us from getting
to understand the
autobiography of
the other person.

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We ought to learn
To be more aware
of these responses.

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And we should always
keep our minds open
while we are listening.

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3 4 levels of
listeningEveryone’s life is so unique but who’s going to
listen to that uniqueness?

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depends on which
level of listening
is being adopted.

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4
The 5th level ~
Empathic
listeningThe one who listens does the most work, not
the one speaking.

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When we listen
empathically,

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We don’t just
“see” things in
our own mind,

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We understand His
or her paradigms.

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We understand
how he or
she feels.

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Empathic
listening is

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listening
with our
ears,

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And
listening
with our
hearts.

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We listen for

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We try to

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is not that you
have to agree
with someone,

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5
4 empathic
listening skillsThe deepest need of human souls is to be
understood.

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Always listen with the pure
desire to understand.

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Genuinely seek
the welfare of
the individual,

45.
let him or her get
To the problem
and the solution

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at his or her own
pace and time.