That you to Celadon books for this gifted copy in exchange for my honest opinions.

This book was fascinating. I don’t read a lot of non fiction, but this topic is one I was interested in prior to receiving this book. How often do you feel like you’re not really being listened to? How often do you find yourself in your head checking back into a conversation and wondering what you missed when you got distracted? You’re Not Listening touched on so many issues with listening such as how we have been conditioned to speak rather than to listen, how “active listening” is more of politely nodding and mmhmming while saying the proper responses and working on your reply while the other person is still speaking, and how technology has connected us and yet disconnected us on a huge scale.

Listening is important and there are so many factors that work against it on a daily basis. Hearing loss, not making eye contact (teachings for a device instead for example), being defensive, etc. On top of all the noise in the world we’ve got even more working against us and we need to work hard to regain control on what listening REALLY means. Deeper connections are formed when people feel like you have REALLY heard, understood and respected them.

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