On Listening, Communicating & Multi-Tasking
I recently had the honor and opportunity to interview Emmy-award winning journalist Linda Ellerbee. She’s a former TV network news anchor, the host of the acclaimed “Nick News” on Nickelodeon, a breast cancer survivor and really neat lady. I talked with her about listening and communication skills.
Here’s an excerpt from our conversation.We were chatting about distractions that typically interfere with effective communication. Enter: Multi-tasking.
According to Ellerbee, “Everyone today gets praised for multi-tasking. I hate multi-tasking. I hate the idea that I am suppose to be on-line, on my laptop, with the TV on and doing all of these things at once. I think we are far better, and I’m not particularly good at it I don’t think, I’m far better at concentrating on one thing intensely and then switching to something else. Multi-tasking just does not suit me. I don’t know why we consider it to be such an attribute. Someone who is doing ten things at once is not doing all ten of them well. Usually the one that is getting lost is listening to what any one else around you is saying.”
We trick ourselves into believing we are super-talented and productive but in reality, scientists say our brains are capable of effectively managing only one task at a time. What a concept.
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One of the things I love about NLP and business is that you can dramatically change the way you see things and your basic beliefs on what’s possible for you and and your business thus opening up new business growh opportunities that you had never seen before. And you can have a lot more fun doing it and isn’t that what we all got into business for ourselves for anyway - to grow and have fun and create new opportunities.
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