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STOP, LOOK & LISTEN
11 "bad" reasons why you can't hear what
other people are saying....
John Milton Fogg Other Articles by this author
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Research shows that just about 85 percent of all we know we learned by listening. Yet the same studies tell us that we're "distracted, preoccupied or forgetful" more than 75 percent of the time, we're only "really' listening less than half the time and at best we remember only 20 percent of what we actually hear.

Perhaps it's because the average person listens at a rate of between 150 and 250 words per minute, but we think at 1000, 2000, 3000 words and more!

Simple physics tells us that no two things can take up the same space at the same time and since as Napoleon Hill recognized "thoughts are things", it's just not possible to be thinking away at a couple of thousand words a minute and hear what another person is saying.

There are 11 specific ways or reasons people are not listening. (Perhaps you can come up with number 12 or even 13.) And each and every one of these explanations has to do with the person doing something other than listening.

If you can identify what you are doing instead of really listening to the other person, you can change the outcome of any communication for the better--even for the very best-- and perhaps, once you make a habit of "Right Listening", even for the better forever.

STOP, LOOK & LISTEN

So, when you get the first sense that you are not hearing someone (or understanding what you've read, or . . . ), Stop. Tak ... Members have full access to this article. Become a member now using the links above.

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About the Author

John Milton Fogg

John Milton Fogg
http://www.GreatestNetworker.com/jmf jmf@GreatestNetworker.com

John Milton Fogg is an author, editor and speaker. His books and audios have sold over three million copies worldwide.

He is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the highly regarded publication Upline®... was a Contributing Editor to SUCCESS magazine... the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Network Marketing Lifestyles magazine... founding editor of Networking Times... the founder of Greatest Networker.com... co-founder of The Network Marketing Magazine.com and the creator of Speaking and Listening.com, Belief Busters.com and The MasterMind Sessions.com.

John is the author of the million-selling industry classic The Greatest Networker in the World, and he has edited and contributed to far too many books to be mentioned here. His latest book is, It's time... for Network Marketing. The most remarkable form of free enterprise ever created. In December of 2006, after 20 years of self-imposed "retirement," John became a network marketer again and is actively building an organization.

He has spoken around the globe, through out Canada and the United States, in Australia, China, Costa Rica, Crete, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Trinidad and the Ukraine.

John is 59 years old, married to Jekaterina (Katyusha), has a daughter Rachel 26, son Johnny 21, daughter Eleonora Milena (Ele) who's 5 years old and Anias Polina (his "last child") was born in March, 2006.

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