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Importance of Relationships – Painting – Process Improvement

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Importance of Relationships

Talking about importance of relationships to combat burn out, process improvement, ways to manage career, and life.

  • Removing listening blocks to improve relationships.
  • How being future focused can make you lose sight of the present.
  • Having an emotional and physical plan for the day.
  • Using process improvement to make life more efficient.
  • Entering flow state with rap music.
  • Building the habit of showing up.
  • Learning to embrace being uncomfortable and producing anyway.
    • 12 Listening Blocks That Hinder Relationships

    Summarized from "Messages: The Communication Skill Book" by Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, Patrick Fanning.

    Comparing
    • Difficult to listen when you are seeing if you measure up.
      • Minding Reading
      • Believing you know what the person is actually saying with only your intuition, or vague misgivings to guide you.
        • Rehearsing
        • No time to listen when you are rehearsing what to say.
          • Filtering
          • Listening only to confirm if someone is angry, unhappy, or if you are in danger.
          • Can also be used to avoid hearing threatening, negative, or critical comments.
            • Judging
            • Forming your opinion before hearing and evaluating the content.
            • Causes listening to cease, and jumping to conclusions.
              • Dreaming
              • Half listening until something triggers a memory, then you are back in your private world.
              • If this is a pattern with a certain party, could be you do not value what they have to say.
                • Identifying
                • Things heard are related back to your own experiences and now you are occupied crafting your story to tell.
                  • Advising
                  • Offering advise after a cursory listen, leaves the party feeling more alone and unheard.
                    • Sparring
                    • Focus is on things to disagree with.
                      • The put-down
                        • Dismissing what the party is saying with a sharp cutting comments.
                        • Discounting
                          • Bringing yourself down after hearing a compliment.
                          • Leaves party feeling unheard when expressing their appreciation.
                            • Being Right
                            • Focus on avoiding criticism, and resistant to change.
                              • Derailing
                              • Quick subject changes.
                              • Responding with jokes to avoid any serious listening.
                                • Placating
                                • Agreeing with everything, instead of listening.
                                • Comes from wanting the party to accept you.
                                  • Mentioned in Episode
                                  • Alt House
                                  • University of Saskatchewan (U of S)
                                  • Messages The Communication Skills Book
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