Becoming a Master Listener: The Key to Transforming Your Relationships

Have you ever been asked what your superpower is? If you asked me, I would have multiple ones that come to mind. Listening is a skill that I only had five years ago. Yes, I knew how to listen. But I did not hear. The world would be a better place if people understood how to listen. Why don't they? Mainly because no one taught us how to listen. We need more education to help us become less greedy to speak and more open to hearing.

Listening to others is something exciting to do. But many people have the misconception that talking about themselves will give them pleasure and that listening to others is dull. They try to minimise how much they are listening and maximise how much they are talking.

You're mistaken if you think that talking about it is the only way to understand who you are, what you feel, what you want and where you want to go next.

Yes, we all seek self-clarification, but we can't get self-clarification if we are doing the talking. If we genuinely want to understand ourselves best, we must listen to the stories of others. They might be more interesting than we think.

Once we are listening to the stories of others, we start understanding bits and pieces of ourselves. Why do we love to read novels? Why do we spend hours of our pressured…