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Listening When You Disagree

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Listening When You Disagree
Listening Like You Mean It
6 MINListening When You Disagree
What you'll learn
  • →Accept the hardest test of listening: can you listen fully to something you think is wrong?
  • →Learn the principle: understanding is not agreeing. You can fully understand someone's view and still disagree with it.
  • →Recognize that the urge to interrupt is the proof that you've stopped listening.
Proof task

Don't just watch. Do.

Find one person in your life who holds an opinion you find frustrating. Ask them to explain it to you fully — no pushback, no questions until they're done. Your only job is to understand it well enough to explain it back. You don't have to agree. You just have to listen.

Chapters

Jump to a moment.

  • 0:00The hook
  • 1:15The pattern
  • 2:45The interrupt
  • 4:30Practice scenario
  • 5:30The proof task
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“Whose opinion have you been refusing to listen to because you're afraid that listening means agreeing?”

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