28 Ways to be a good listener over text
1 Avoid distractions
2 Ask clarifying questions
3 Prepare yourself to listen
4 Watch tv in spanish
5 Validate their feelings
6 Look the speaker in the eyes
7 Listen to learn, not to be polite
8 Pay attention to your talk/listen ratio
9 Empathetically repeat back what you heard
10 Check in with each other
11 Understand what listening looks like
12 Say it again
13 Tell the other person about your feelings and reactions
14 Summarise what youve heard with empathy
15 Get their full attention
16 Reassure the person of your confidentiality
17 Do not interrupt her
18 Use your head
19 Be an active listener
20 Adjust your body language
21 Stop giving unsolicited advice
22 Be present, just as you would in meditation
23 Remove stringent metrics
24 Dont pass judgment
25 Resist the fear of missing out (fomo)
26 Check your assumptions about what it means to say no
27 Consider how to use a modified no
28 Find a spanish speaker
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