7 habits of highly successful teens habit 5

5. Seek first to 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 you 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 middle unless they feel genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will tell you more than you may want to hear. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Listening with your eyes, heart, and ears. 7 percent of the 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 reflects in our voice (40%). Most people are eager to talk and rather talk than listen we have one mouth and 2 ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. Learn to listen to learn. Listen, really listen, for understanding. Seek first to understand then to be understood. LISTEN

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