Keeping Your Mouth Shut Enables Great Listening

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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

Dan Lyons shows why and how silence can be your greatest superpower.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How conversations dramatically influence overall health and happiness.

2) How to tell if you’re talking too much.

3) How pauses wield enormous power.

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— ABOUT DAN —

Dan Lyons is the author of Disrupted: My Adventures in the Startup Bubble, a New York Times bestselling memoir, and Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us. He was also a writer for the hit HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. As a journalist, he spent a decade covering Silicon Valley for Forbes, ran tech coverage at Newsweek, and contributed to Fortune, the New York Times, Wired, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker.

• Book: STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World

• Website: DanLyons.io

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• Book: 1984 by George Orwell

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• Book: The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine

• Book: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

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