layout: post title: Listen categories: [] tags: [] status: publish type: post published: true meta: passthrough_url: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/03/active-listening.html last_modified_at: 2024-11-01 19:03:52 —>The kind of listening we’re trained to do in school and at work is passive listening. Sit still. Get through it. Figure out what’s going to be on the test and ignore the rest. Your eyes can glaze over, but don’t let it show. Try not to nod off. People are talking, and they’d like the illusion of listening to accompany that. Don’t interrupt.