Making time to LISTEN to someone for a hour, stop making it about you and your problems and listen to someone close to you. Today in our age we want to be heard instead of doing the listening. Sometimes the best thing to do that helps you is just to listen.
Trust me, /u/ClumsySweetspot I am the same way. Very hard to open up about myself. But it has made me a great listener and I genuinely care for people. But the problem is where I genuinely care, people don't seem to care enough to ask deeper questions about me so I can always reverse it on them and listen to their problems!
Making time to LISTEN to someone for a hour, stop making it about you and your problems and listen to someone close to you. Today in our age we want to be heard instead of doing the listening. Sometimes the best thing to do that helps you is just to listen.
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Agreed. Actively listening to a person can be used to garner a great deal of respect with the speaker.
In order to ACTIVELY listen, make sure you engage them with questions to show them that you are actually paying attention to what they have to say.