845: The Surprising Power of Shutting Up with Dan Lyons
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
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Keeping Your Mouth Shut Enables Great Listening
Dan: Just keeping your mouth shut enables listening, although it doesn't guarantee you listening. Dan: There are exercises like one is you and I would sit down. And I think we pick three questions,. And I ask you those three and you answer them. You speak for five minutes without being interrupted. Maybe it's just one question. Anyway, so we take turns and if you don't use the whole five minutes, we still sit there in silence. Like, I don't speak for 5 minutes. And we flip it around. And then you just talk about afterwards, like, how did you feel when you were listening? How did you feeling when you were talking? So you talk
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