Video: Learning Active Listening Skills

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Learn active listening skills by listening to the emotional undertone of what a person is saying and reacting to what a person says instead of just reacting with your own story. Avoid preparing what to say next to a person, and just listen to what they are saying, with help from a professional dating coach in this free video on communication.

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Hi, this is Jessica Claire with New York Dating Coach in New York City. In this clip, we're going to talk about learning active listening skills. Women are extremely good listeners and they don't just listen for data, they usually listen for emotional undertone, whereas men are regularly interested in data, the score of the game opposed to how they felt about the game. Now the number one way to get better at this is practice, so listen to what the person says. Don't prepare for what you're going to say next. Just listen, then, instead of reacting with your own story, react to what they said. A woman will usually say how she felt about something and if you can take how she felt about that, and react to that feeling, you're, you're sort of becoming a more active and controlled listener. Also, the next sort of step in this learning process would be to learn to share something about yourself in return, so "I live in San Francisco," etcetera, and you can say "oh, how do you feel about San Francisco? This is how I feel about it, also this is how I feel about my hometown." It's a sort of active sharing reaction. This is Jessica Claire in New York City.

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