{"id":51,"date":"2021-12-11T08:43:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T08:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2021-12-11T08:43:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T08:43:55","slug":"listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/life\/listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A truly good conversation gives us something to think about; it presents a new thought process, and a different perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a good listener means one is open minded, curious and humble. The conversation has to be about the other, not about oneself. Listening isn&#8217;t just about words, but of the hidden cues, the emotions rolling under the surface. A conversation can happen without a word. Silence speaks a thousand words in an instant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humility, in conversations, would mean to accept that one doesn&#8217;t know it all. There is a whole lot to be learned from someone. There is a different perspective to be understood from years of experience in this thing called life. They have fought a different battle that we don&#8217;t know nothing about. There might be many stories to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[[Narcissists]] would put their entire attention when the discussion centers around them; and then quickly lose interest when the discussion goes elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truly good conversation gives us something to think about; it presents a new thought process, and a different perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}