Few people do it. Very few people excel in it. Almost nobody enjoys it: Listening with the intention to send back the meaning received.
Most people listen to reply. Or pretend to listen. Or wait for a time to butt in. Or grunt their way through the conversation.
If you can sit patiently and listen to someone else speaking and do so without the slightest intention to speak before the other has finished, you'd be among an elite group.
You'd rank very high in this group if you could also train yourself to convince the other person you knew exactly what she was talking about (without saying, "I know exactly what you're talking about").
Such (exact) knowledge comes only when you can 'do' what the other person just did: Talk like him about the same subject with the same nuances i.e. send the meaning back. Return to Sender.
If you can sit patiently and listen to someone else speaking and do so without the slightest intention to speak before the other has finished, you'd be among an elite group.
You'd rank very high in this group if you could also train yourself to convince the other person you knew exactly what she was talking about (without saying, "I know exactly what you're talking about").
Such (exact) knowledge comes only when you can 'do' what the other person just did: Talk like him about the same subject with the same nuances i.e. send the meaning back. Return to Sender.
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