Listening
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
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6 statements about Listening, every show
Fisher: Videos on listening consistently receive the worst viewership
“Anytime I've made a video on listening, it's the worst viewed video I ever have.”
Jeremy Barr: Listening Is the Top Trait for Founder Investability
“Listening is probably the number one trait I'm always looking for because it applies to Pretty much everything for you to become like a gravity ball, which is my investable thesis. Is that gravity ball, your ability to communicate to and relate to a wide varie…”
Coughlin: Deep listening requires assuming your interpretation of others is wrong
“Always noticing what I think it means is probably wrong, and how could it be wrong? And therefore, I have to acquire.”
People often listen to fix or win rather than to learn
“I just have this idea that a lot of the time we're listening for a purpose, and mostly that purpose is hidden from us, but if we were to really think about it, our purpose is to win, to convince the person of something, to convince them that in this case, it's…”
Seides: Active listening uses the exact same toolkit across all disciplines
“The discipline of listening, I have come both through the podcast and through experience to realize there is sort of a body of knowledge, just like, you know, if you take algebra, you need to learn certain principles to understand how to do algebra. Listening …”