Ep 58: Why is it so hard for us to adopt a "listen first" mentality, with Graham Bodie

It's not in our nature to listen first. So much attention is paid to speaking that we often forget that for it to be effective, someone else has to be listening.

Here in the United States, we take public speaking classes in school and speech is a protected right under the Constitutional, but no such attention is paid to listening.

My guest this week, Graham Bodie, is a professor and researcher at the University of Mississippi and the COO of an organization called the Listen First Project (https://www.listenfirstproject.org). And in our conversation, Graham helps me uncover the reasons why listening first doesn't always come easy.

Check out Graham's work on his website http://www.grahambodie.com.