The document discusses the importance of listening to become a better leader. It emphasizes that listening is key to success in relationships and work, but can be difficult because people often want to voice their own opinions and ignore others. It provides tips for becoming a better listener, such as being respectful, talking less than listening, and letting go of assumptions to give others a clean slate. Mastering listening requires self-control to not interrupt and judge others based on biases.

2. Listening is key to success, whether in your
personal relationships or at work even if it is
always easy to voice more of our own opinions
and talk over others.

3. It is also relatively easy to ignore what others are
saying because we have assumptions that we don’t
want to challenge.

4. Listening to others seems like it should be
something that should be simple, but sometimes
we can listen to other people without truly hearing
what they are saying.

5. By learning to become a better listener, you will
become more empathetic and compassionate.

6. People with empathy and compassion turn out to
be the best leaders, who can motivate their
employees and get the most out of their abilities.

7. Here's how you can become a better listener and in
turn become a better leader.

8. Being respectful is critical

9. We all want to be respected and not be ignored at
both the private as well as professional workspace.

10. You probably wouldn't feel too good about
negative emotions that could then lead you to
ignore others as well.

11. Negative emotions can lead to more negativity,
while respectfulness tends to lead to respectfulness
in return.

12. Whether you are in a meeting for work or on a
date, make sure that you are actually taking the
time to be respectful and listen to the person on the
other side.

13. Don't talk more than you
listen

14. Talking more than you listen or talking over others
is a clear, easy way to signal that you aren’t really
hearing the other person.

15. In order to master the art of listening, you need to
know when to be silent and when to speak up.

16. You shouldn't be totally silent, but you should let
other people speak and voice their opinions
without interrupting them, even if they are
speaking about an issue that you might disagree
with them on.

17. This is quite difficult for some people, and
definitely takes a level of self-control, but this is a
key part of being a good listener, and you’ll find
that others reciprocate once they are done talking.

18. Be willing to let go of your
assumptions

19. This one is very important as we all have some
level of bias or pre-conceived notions about a
given person or situation which often cloud our
judgement when we listen to them.

20. Being a good listener means throwing out those
assumptions and instead of giving them a clean
slate, listening to what they are actually saying at
the moment.

21. This helps to give you a better idea of what is
objectively being said and it also lets the speaker
know that you aren’t judging them based on your
own biases

22. Letting go of assumptions is never easy, but in the
long run, it is tremendously beneficial to both
sides.

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