📚243: The Key to Self-Growth! Separate Facts from Opinions Instead of Making Assumptions
🟠 Prologue 🟠
- Introduction -
Hello, this is Tochamin.
I usually read for about 30 minutes a day.
In doing so,I have summarized the things that left an impression on me and the insights I gained
as tips for living!
I hope they are useful in your daily life too♪
This time,
it's about the secret to listening without being trapped by assumptions!
* Please also take a look at this article regarding the reasons for continuing to read and what to learn (^^)!!
🟩 Chapter.1 🟩
- Reading Details -
🟥 Chapter.2 🟥
- 3 Points for Listening Without Being Swayed by Cognitive Theory -
People have their own unique way of seeing things.
They interpret experiences and events from that perspective
to make judgments and take actions.
This is called cognitive theory.
Depending on one's subjective perspective, one may
make incorrect interpretations like the following.
✅️ Jumping to conclusions
Arbitrarily deciding on something that is only one of many possibilities.
Ex) They will definitely be late again tomorrow
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Exaggeration Taking things out of proportion.
Ex) That person is always late
✅️
Overgeneralization Assuming that if one thing goes wrong,
everything else will go wrong too
Ex) People who are late are bad at their jobs
✅️
Overlooking Looking at only a part and missing important aspects
Ex) Because they are late, everything is going wrong
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False values Perceiving something as meaningless.
Ex) Being late is the worst, so they don't need to be here
To listen without these distorted perspectives,
keep the following three points in mind.
✅️ Listen by separating facts from opinions
✅️ Check if there is a basis for the perspective
✅️ Be careful not to listen based on your own assumptions
By understanding how cognitive theory works
and maintaining this awareness,
you can prevent trouble and misunderstandings.
🟦 Chapter.3 🟦
- 5 Characteristics of Poor Listeners -
Poor listeners generally have
the following five characteristics.
✅️ Interrupting during a conversation
Not listening to the end of the other person's story
and cutting in or interrupting.
By repeating this,
you are perceived as "not interested in listening."
✅️ Not focused on the conversation
Listening half-heartedly
or doing it when you are not interested.
The other person will think
"I am not being valued."
✅️ Only talking about yourself
Not listening to the other person and talking about yourself
unilaterally.
It makes the other person feel uncomfortable
and makes it difficult to build a close relationship.
✅️ Weak reactions
Not expressing how you feel about the other person's story.
It makes the speaker think,
"Is my story boring?"
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Denying the other person's story Listening with an evaluative attitude and denying or lecturing if your thoughts differ.
Even if you mean well for the other person,
the distance between you will gradually grow.
🟣 Epilogue 🟣
- Summary of this time -
Through my reading today,
I learned the secret to listening without being trapped by assumptions!
Are you jumping to conclusions about things,
or taking them out of proportion?
People interpret and judge events
through a filter
called their own unique cognitive theory.
This distorted perspective
can be a cause of trouble and misunderstandings.
To prevent this, it seems that having the awareness to listen by separating facts from opinions and checking the basis for perspectives
can prevent miscommunication
and lead to self-growth🔑✨
And it seems that poor listeners have
certain characteristics when listening to others.
These behaviors
have a significant impact on the impression you make on others
and can be the cause of poor interpersonal relationships.
In particular, denying what others say
is equivalent to showing off your own superiority
and is a reason why people drift away‼️
If you
think, "I want to improve my relationships, but
I don't know what to do..."
or "I want to grow more as a person!"
why not practice this way of thinking and listening
that distinguishes facts from opinions in your daily life?
Next Episode Preview
Next time,
we will discuss what
good listeners value!
Highlights So Far
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