What are the advantages of listening and believing to what others think of you?

You show compassion. Becoming compassionate and practicing it while listening to others is a great way to get in touch with your soul, to become a better person. Only this way are we able to be wise in our actions, feel what others think, and start giving.

Why is listening more important than giving advice?

What happens when we step in and rush to offer advice is that we shut down the space to examine our own minds and mental processes. When we offer advice, when we rush to speak instead of listen, we aren’t just interrupting: we’re shutting down the possibility for a more effective process of self-discovery.

How do you listen to someone without giving advice?

Steps to Not Giving Advice

1. Ask them Questions about the Problem and their Feelings.
2. Point out Positive Qualities about them to build their confidence in decision making.
3. Share Stories only to offer a perspective or help them feel they are not alone.
4. Do Not make the story about yourself.
5. Offer Options.

What can we learn from other people’s stories?

As we see our own experiences reflected through the listening eyes and ears of others, we gain new perspectives. Likewise, when we listen to another person share their story, we become mirrors reflecting back to them an understanding, a validation, or perhaps another angle, or question.

Why is it important to listen to other people’s stories?

Knowing how to listen to others’ stories is just as important as being able to tell your own story. When we listen, truly listen, to someone else’s story, we understand who they are in a new and different way, we hear their perspective, their interpretation, their understanding of the world and of themselves.

Why do some people refuse to listen to sound advice?

They will disagree when we try to help them and come up with all sorts of reasons why they should not listen to sound advice. I noticed that people remain in denial and don’t listen because they lack the skills necessary to think it through—to plan a solution. In addition, when a solution is presented to them, they don’t see it.

Why is it important to listen to older people?

Listening to the advice of older people has promoted well-being and even survival for millennia. Over the 1.5 million years of human existence, it is only for about the past 200 years that most people have gone to anyone other than local elders for solutions to life’s problems.

Why listen to the wisdom of older Americans?

Let me offer three reasons why the wisdom of older Americans can be a uniquely important source of guidance for the not-yet-old. 1. Listening to the advice of older people has promoted well-being and even survival for millennia.

Why do people remain in denial and don’t listen?

I noticed that people remain in denial and don’t listen because they lack the skills necessary to think it through—to plan a solution. In addition, when a solution is presented to them, they don’t see it. Even when telling them how to solve their problem, they will disagree with the reasons for taking action.