Numan Butt
Jul 21, 2017 · 2 min read

Listening to others is not always as easy as we think it is. It’s much more difficult even beyond our expectations just because we always want to talk about ourselves. We have a nature of praising ourselves. We don’t even bother to think about other’s opinion. Therefore, against the thinking of this materialistic world, I accepted “The interested challenge”.

WHAT WAS THE CHALENGE?

The challenge was all about not to talk to others about myself for 24 hours and I can only talk about others or can ask about them.

LEARNING:

1- When you take interest in others, they automatically got interested in you. In other world, when you ask them only about themselves then they become attracted towards you by themselves. The most interesting thing is “they’ll want to listen to you by their own will”.

2- I think it also shows your respect you feel for the other person because when I was doing the task to complete my challenge, people were going to be happier around me than they were with me ever before.

3- I also felt that people were becoming more relaxed when I didn’t talked about myself. Even some of them started sharing their problems and troubles with me. I think it’s also way of relief for others to ask only about themselves.

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