How Are You Listening? |
Friday Jun 11 2010
There is a humorous 1-1/2 minute video called Masi, Me Tiro which is winning awards around the world. It has inspired me to reflect on how we listen to others. The characters demonstrate that our listening is often filtered through our personal judgments and preconceptions of others. This filtering limits our ability to listen. We find ourselves reacting to what’s being said and to who we think they are based on our history and their identity (or appearance). We are prisoners of our stories about them. We are not really listening to what the other person is saying. In the video, the two men are trapped inside their own circular conversations, unable to hear or validate the other person except inside the interpretation they have of them. They react to each other without listening.[Read More]
Written by eldering at Learning
Tagged with: acceptance communication humberto_maturana language listening masi_me_tiro peter_drucker
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