I talk too much and never listen to people, including my parents. Its as if Im constantly distracted. How do I become a listener to people. Its just I donthave a strong mind and find it hard to listen to other people.
I don’t think there is such a thing really. Although you can get attentive the more you like someone. Probably something like the famous book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie might help. As yet to read but I do have a copy of it as of late. It’s also a very old book first published 1936 although gets . revised and updated every once and awhile. More currently and as far as I know the leading communication expert is Dr. Lillian Glass. After a google seems she has a few sites on the net, blogs etc but has a few books out that might help.
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I don’t think I’m a good listener. I try to be… but if the conversation is too long… I get lost in the words… they just wash over me like ocean waves… I can’t concentrate on long stuff like that.
I used to tell my family… If it’s very important… write it down please so I’ll remember it.
They did catch on that small conversations and to the point worked best for me.
Maybe let your family know your trying… but it’s hard to keep long conversations going.
I do best when I keep my mouth closed and wait for the person to stop talking to me before I open my mouth to reply. Sometimes no reply is okay too, just acknowledge you heard their words with a nod of the head.
Also I have found that I do better with fewer, more direct words, rather than a long sentence.
I ask others to not say in 20 words what can be said in 2.