I can confirm from past experience that you’re not a good listener but, fortunately, much of what you have to say is interesting, insightful, hilarious, outrageous, or all four.
"I tell him girlfriend and boyfriend are probably the result of gen x not being parented. And dad is a result of parents spending more time with kids.
My son tells me we don't have to turn everything into me giving a lesson."
Story of my life. Also, one can't be a good listener if we're always thinking about the lesson we're trying to teach. Only 2.5% of the world's population can multi-task or more simply ~98% of the population cannot do more than 1 thing at a time. This is how I know that if I'm coming up with a solution shortly after my kid says something (or interrupting cow mode in the middle), I haven't properly listened.
I try to tell myself over and over that the world needs listeners. The world does not need me to tell them everything I know. But it's not just conversations - it's everywhere - even editing my posts it's hard for me to not say everything I in my head that is interesting to me.
The first thing I was taught on my Coaching diploma was that listening is the core skill of a good coach. As a big talker, fascinated with my own ideas and super-fast mins I realised I didn't have this quality and just because I am good at knowing what work suits people from interviewing them (20 years as a career coach and interview trainer) I can't truly understand what people need from coaching because my ND means I'm not able to listen closely as I get bored so I do everyone a favour by not trying to coach them.
I can confirm from past experience that you’re not a good listener but, fortunately, much of what you have to say is interesting, insightful, hilarious, outrageous, or all four.
Pitch to nyt/wapo STAT
"I tell him girlfriend and boyfriend are probably the result of gen x not being parented. And dad is a result of parents spending more time with kids.
My son tells me we don't have to turn everything into me giving a lesson."
Story of my life. Also, one can't be a good listener if we're always thinking about the lesson we're trying to teach. Only 2.5% of the world's population can multi-task or more simply ~98% of the population cannot do more than 1 thing at a time. This is how I know that if I'm coming up with a solution shortly after my kid says something (or interrupting cow mode in the middle), I haven't properly listened.
The interrupting cow reference is so funny.
I try to tell myself over and over that the world needs listeners. The world does not need me to tell them everything I know. But it's not just conversations - it's everywhere - even editing my posts it's hard for me to not say everything I in my head that is interesting to me.
As my son would say in response, “facts”
The first thing I was taught on my Coaching diploma was that listening is the core skill of a good coach. As a big talker, fascinated with my own ideas and super-fast mins I realised I didn't have this quality and just because I am good at knowing what work suits people from interviewing them (20 years as a career coach and interview trainer) I can't truly understand what people need from coaching because my ND means I'm not able to listen closely as I get bored so I do everyone a favour by not trying to coach them.