Podcast & The Art of Listening

Finally on what I have earlier decided to dismiss that I have a listening problem. I decided to test my luck or my ears for that matter by doing the oppsite ... i.e I made a decision to listen myself.

As I listened to Anthony Robbins over a podcast (yes.. I am beginning to listen), he says to not associate pain with a false cause. This then leads us to teach ourselves to avoid the pain on a misguided thinking. Robbins says that we need to take control of our emotions by overiding our emotions and make a decison of what pleasure and what pain is rather than life dictate it.

So I guess.. I am doing the right thing i.e rather than running away from what I called my apparent weakness in that I fail to listen correctly all the time because listening skills is something that I do not care of... I decided that I will take charge of my life and stop trying to run away from my weakness.

So here I am trying to take the bull by it's horn or so to speak. I am training ... retraining myself that is to learn to listen. How may you ask... why I guess.. the easiest way other than give someone my full attention when they talk is to also to listen to podcast.

I started listening to Robin Sharma first - he is one of my fave authors. I loved his "the monk who bought a ferrari book). I must admit... he did not have a voice that I imagine that he had. He did however sound like ... a thoughful guy after I decided to listen more rather than try to imagine him speaking :-)

Anyways.. Robin Sharma's podcast are fun. They are short and too the point. I love the fact that it tends to last a good 6 mins and nothing longer. It is a good feeling for people who like me who seems to want to multitask working an listening. I should know... that listening is an art in which someone needs to concentrate on rather that trying to associate it as a chore.

Anyways... the good news is that I found that podcasts can be fun... listening is fun too. I would certainly want to listen book... it is like a modern day sort of reading... someone reading something to you or lecturing you or teaching you something. It is an interesting feeling. I guess.. this is why people like it so much.

The podcasts that I have been listening thus so far :-)

1. Leadership - [Robin Sharma]
2. Dare To Create Money - [Tony Robbins, T Harv Eker, Robert Kiyosaki, Bob Proctor]
3. Awaken the Giant Within - [Anthony Robbins]