Hey, welcome back to Practicing Human.

This is the podcast where every day we're practicing getting a little better at life.

I'm your host Cory Muscarra, and in today's episode I'm going to share a tip for how you

can become a better listener.

More to come on that in a moment, but first let's settle in with our lovely bells.

I'll ring them, you listen, and let the sound attune your attention a little more to the

present moment.

Okay, so today's topic, how to be a better listener.

As you can imagine, this is a very big topic, and we could do, well, a whole year's worth

of podcast episodes just looking at that.

But I want to give you one tip that I think you can apply immediately into your next conversation

that will deepen the quality of the conversation, make you feel more connected to the person,

and make the other person feel like you're truly listening to them.

And this tip is to listen to understand rather than listening to respond.

Now I can't take credit for this, I don't know who originally said it, I've had trouble

tracking it down, but I can take credit for spreading this far and wide.

I love this idea, I share it in all of my presentations.

If you read my book, you probably saw it in my book.

And the reason I think it's so brilliant is because it's so easy to implement.

It doesn't require doing an extended meditation practice, it doesn't require doing an extended

communication practice.

Just in the next conversation you have, all you're going to do is practice shifting your mindset.

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