This week’s Prayer & Praise was all about listening; how to become a better listener in any given situation. We started off with a quick partner exercise where each person spoke for 30 seconds about whatever they wanted. We then shared what we like that tells us the other person is listening and then what we DON’T like that tells us the person is NOT listening. Becky then shared the five barriers of active listening: 1) active listening is hard work 2) over stimulation 3) need to act fast 4) lack of training 5) we listen at 400-500 words per minute and talk at 135-175 words per minute, so our brain has a lot of free time, aka we get distracted. We THEN discussed the four types of listeners 1) the non-listener 2) marginal listener 3) evaluative listener and 4) the active listener. We closed with a group activity involving the four types of listeners.
Word of the week: jorum n. large bowl containing drink; its contents
Aaron wanted to get a jump on his business career, so the logical thing to do is to make a business card, right? Of course!! So upon the arrival of his business cards he realized that he didn’t have a logical way to hand them out, and thus the plan formulates… He thought, “I will sell bowls!! But not just any kind of bowls, jorums!!!” After selling his first million jorums, he bought a plane ticket to Germany and opened his own jorum manufacturing and selling company, thus fulfilling the “International” and “Administration” parts of his “International Business Administration” degree. To this day he retains the “Most Business Cards Handed Out By Any Businessperson in the World” title.
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