7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 5

5. Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.

Because most people don’t listen very well, one of the great frustrations in life is that many don’t feel understood? This habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skill there is: active learning.

Why is this habit the key to communication? It’s because the deepest need of the human heart is to be understand. Everyone wants to be respected the valued for who they are a unique, expose their soft middles unless they feel genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will tell you know until they know how much you care.

Listen with your eyes, heart and ears. 7 percent of communication is contained in the words we use. The rest comes from body language (53 percent) and how we say words, of the tone and feelings reflected in our voice (40 percent).

Most people are eager to talk and had rather than listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. Learn and listen and listen. Listen, really listen, for understanding. Seek first to understand then to be understood—LISTEN.

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