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I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
Michael S. Sorensen
4.02 AVERAGE
134 reviews for:
I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
Michael S. Sorensen
4.02 AVERAGE
Short and sweet, but very helpful. Most of what is explained is common sense. However, I've never thought of it the way he explains it. I've already found the advice very helpful and have given it to other people to read as well.
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5 to-the-point stars
You ever read a recipe on a blog where the author spends FOREVER talking about their day, their favorite childhood memory, and what they has for breakfast before they get to the recipe? I feel like that’s how a lot of “self help” or advice-style books are. But not this one!
This book is direct, concise, and completely to the point. I don’t know about you, but that’s exactly what I want out of these genre of books.
As far as substance goes, was there anything groundbreaking and new here? No. But sometimes the best advice is the most simple. You should strive to listen and respond in a way that makes others feel good (read: validated). I personally feel like I do a lot of these things, but I think it never hurts to re-read straightforward advice on topics like these. You never know what may click differently just by hearing it from someone else’s perspective.
Anyway, this is a great read. Direct, concise, has real-life examples, and breaks it down simply without being condescending or cheesy. Highly recommend.
You ever read a recipe on a blog where the author spends FOREVER talking about their day, their favorite childhood memory, and what they has for breakfast before they get to the recipe? I feel like that’s how a lot of “self help” or advice-style books are. But not this one!
This book is direct, concise, and completely to the point. I don’t know about you, but that’s exactly what I want out of these genre of books.
As far as substance goes, was there anything groundbreaking and new here? No. But sometimes the best advice is the most simple. You should strive to listen and respond in a way that makes others feel good (read: validated). I personally feel like I do a lot of these things, but I think it never hurts to re-read straightforward advice on topics like these. You never know what may click differently just by hearing it from someone else’s perspective.
Anyway, this is a great read. Direct, concise, has real-life examples, and breaks it down simply without being condescending or cheesy. Highly recommend.
Just what everyone needs
This book is short, sweet, and phenomenal. It tells us how to validate and be validated in ways you might not know you need. I am so excited to take this method and use it in my everyday life and actually start asking for what I need.
This book is short, sweet, and phenomenal. It tells us how to validate and be validated in ways you might not know you need. I am so excited to take this method and use it in my everyday life and actually start asking for what I need.
A self-help book about improving your relationships through validation. It's very short.
A key principle is 'you are validating the other person, not their beliefs or opinions'.
Cultivating empathy, which entails identifying and sharing the emotion of the other person. This is the part which seems hardest to me. What if I don't share the other person's emotion? Should I fake it? What if it would be wrong to share the other person's emotion?
Some food for thought here, though.
A lot of this material can be found on the author's blog.
A key principle is 'you are validating the other person, not their beliefs or opinions'.
Cultivating empathy, which entails identifying and sharing the emotion of the other person. This is the part which seems hardest to me. What if I don't share the other person's emotion? Should I fake it? What if it would be wrong to share the other person's emotion?
Some food for thought here, though.
A lot of this material can be found on the author's blog.
Such simple advice on how to validate and yet I just don't do it. Instead, at least with my insignificant other I tend to defend myself, interrupt outlandish accusations, ignore, avoid, don't look up from my book, don't take the bait and don't acknowledge the bid for attention.
This book talks about the tools that with practice are in fact easy and applicable to just about any conversation that I will try to use and try and try and try again and if not with my IO then with just others who don't come at me with conversations intending to 'put me in my place', like with my dog for example.
But I digress. This is a very short book that should live on your bookshelf or in your audible file to listen to again when needing a refresher.
This book talks about the tools that with practice are in fact easy and applicable to just about any conversation that I will try to use and try and try and try again and if not with my IO then with just others who don't come at me with conversations intending to 'put me in my place', like with my dog for example.
But I digress. This is a very short book that should live on your bookshelf or in your audible file to listen to again when needing a refresher.
A marketing executives method for effective validation of others. The four step method is 1) Listen Empathically, 2) Validate the Emotion, 3) Offer Advice or Encouragement (if appropriate), and 4) Validate the Emotion Again. Expanding on this method and offering examples from the authors life as well as bits of research picked up along the way this book was a quick read. I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads Giveaways.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
informative
medium-paced