It’s strange how things happen in life: you live with someone for a long time, you are on the best of terms, yet you never once speak to them frankly and from the heart; with someone else, you’ve hardly even got acquainted - and there you are: as if at confession, one or other of you is blurting out all his most intimate secrets. Ivan Turgenev
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If you want to be understood, you must first learn how to listen. And this is easier said than done. When you are in the middle of a conversation, it is hard to stop and just concentrate on what someone else has said. Our attention gets distracted by the other person’s words and the surroundings. But the best way to learn how to listen is to simply practice! Keep your mind focused on your listening target for a few minutes, and see if you can understand what they mean.

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