{"id":4613,"date":"2022-07-18T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contattoblogs.timslatter.co.za\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2022-07-18T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T06:30:44","slug":"its-okay-to-listen-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contattolive.co.za\/north\/its-okay-to-listen-and-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s okay to listen and learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the last two decades, we\u2019ve been introduced, seduced and held captive by the overwhelming presence of digital communication. From the days when we promised ourselves we would \u2018never get emails on our Blackberry\u2019 to an age where we can DM, post, comment, react, share, support, subscribe, pin, tweet, self-publish, sync, stream, webcast, update, upload and download practically anything and everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve moved from a chosen behaviour to listen and learn to a conditioned behaviour of reacting, responding and replying; and, it\u2019s spilling over into our real-world lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With so many things in life, if we want to do them well, we need to pace ourselves, listen and learn. Learning can happen in many ways, including taking action, but if we haven\u2019t listened properly, our actions will almost always be inadequate or inappropriate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Becoming exceptionally good at anything requires hours and hours of learning and growing, and it requires focus, diligence and dedication. But, the digital world urges us to move faster whilst thinking and feeling less. This is why we find ourselves stuck or trapped in debt or with a string of poor financial decisions in our past and a lack of confidence to make better decisions in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s why we struggle to connect through deep conversations and crave a journey of self-awareness and change on our own terms, not someone else&#8217;s agenda. Perhaps, we need to be reminded that it\u2019s okay to simply listen and learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We don\u2019t have to respond and reply to everything people say and do. We can let them be who they feel they need to be so that we can focus on who we want to be, making decisions that best benefit us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s okay to listen and learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Stephen Covey put it, \u201cThe biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two decades, we\u2019ve been introduced, seduced and held captive by the overwhelming presence of digital communication. 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