{"id":639,"date":"2017-12-30T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T05:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lensq.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2017-12-30T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T05:03:28","slug":"talk-people-will-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lensq.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/30\/talk-people-will-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to talk so people will listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is basic human need to want to be heard. But many a times you don\u2019t know how to talk so people pay attention. You end up getting frustrated and blame the way you are or your position.<\/span>
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\nBut making people listen to you has got nothing to do with how interesting you are. Let\u2019s do a simple exercise. <\/span>
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\nWhen was the last time you were totally lost in listening to someone? What made you listen to them with such an attention? Was it the way they dressed? Was it the content? Or was it their position?<\/span>
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\nEven though content is an important factor to add value to the listener, it is not what makes people glued to you. There is something beyond that.<\/span>
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\nOnce when I met a friend, we were out of topics for conversing. We were playing the you tell more game. I said \u201c You have lot of interesting things to say. There is nothing interesting in my life.\u201d Then he said, \u201c I am telling you mundane things only. I am just narrating it interestingly.\u201d That statement left me thinking. The way to make people listen to you is not the content.<\/span>
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How should you talk?<\/span><\/h1>\n

 
\n1.Talk about the core idea<\/strong>
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\nLet\u2019s say you want to talk about your house. If you mention that your house has 10 doors and 20 windows and 7 rooms, people will sleep off half way. Instead, if you mention that you have a spacious house with a good ventilation, people will understand the core idea you are trying to convey.<\/span>
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\n2.Analogies<\/strong>
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\nDo you explain mutual funds to a 5 year old kid in technical terms? You will explain it by taking examples of chocolates. Similarly in your daily life conversations if you explain your ideas with analogies which people can connect to, they will find it interesting.<\/span>
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\n3.Use unconventional ways<\/strong>
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\nOnce when my friend asked for directions to my house, \u201c i said get down at bus stop and keep walking till you find a big garbage can and then take right there. Keep walking till you find an old brown coloured gate house.\u201d<\/span>
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\nInstead if I told her, \u201cTake left, then take right and come to house number 123\u201d, she would have for sure forgotten.<\/span>
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\nMy friend even today finds it disgusting that I used garbage can as a landmark.<\/span>
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\n4.Tell it as a story<\/strong>
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\n\u201c I met an interesting woman\u201d. None of your friends will listen. If you start describing what is interesting with the details, then they will listen to you.<\/span>
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\n5.Use numbers in context<\/strong>
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\n\u201cBangalore is 709 sq km in area\u201d . Okay. So what now?<\/span>
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\n\u201c Bangalore is as big as Singapore country.\u201d There you know the significance of the size.<\/span>
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\nWhat talking style have you noticed in people you love listening to? Share it with us in the comments section.<\/span>
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\nHappy talking in a way people will listen!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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