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Stephen R. Covey - Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Welcome to the Daily Quote, a podcast designed to kick start
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  your day in a positive way. I'm your host, Andrew McGivern
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  for July 18th. Today is World Listening Day.
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  Now I know what you might be thinking.
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  Do we really need a day, an entire day just to listen?
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  And yes, we absolutely do World Listening Day is more than just
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  a gentle nudge to stop talking over your Co workers on Zoom or
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  your Co hosts on your podcast. It was created by the World
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  Listening Project to raise awareness about the world of
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  sound, how we perceive it, how it shapes our lives, and how
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  paying attention to it can deepen our connection with the
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  environment, with others, and even with ourselves.
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  This day honors our Marie Schaefer, A composer and
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  environmentalist who pioneered the field of acoustic ecology,
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  which is basically the science of how sound interacts with our
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  environment. It's a day to pause, unplug, and
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  just listen. Not scroll, not refresh, not
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  interject. Just listen.
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  Listen to nature. Listen to vehicle traffic.
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  Listen to other people. And that brings us to today's
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  quote from Stephen R Covey, who once said most people do not
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  listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the
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  intent to reply. Ouch.
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  That one stings a little, doesn't it?
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  Covey, best known for his book The Seven Habits of Highly
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  Affected People, which is a great book, by the way, He's not
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  just calling us out, he's inviting us to slow down.
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  Real listening isn't about nodding politely while you wait
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  for your turn to talk. It's about being fully present,
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  tuning into the emotions beneath the words, and actually caring
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  about what's being said. Imagine that.
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  So today, whether you're eavesdropping on the birds
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  outside your window or actually listening to your friend then
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  for the fifth time or the 500th time about their job, try to
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  take a moment to hear what's really being said.
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  The world's making music all the time.
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  You just have to stop rehearsing your next line long enough to
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  hear it. That's going to do it for today.
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  I'm Anna McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.