There’s one quality that makes you a great listener. Best of all, it’s nothing complex or unattainable – it’s something we all have within us.

How to listen like Momo

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2024-10-15 05:30:02

There’s one quality that makes you a great listener. Best of all, it’s nothing complex or unattainable – it’s something we all have within us. Once you embrace it, you’ll never listen the same way again.

There are many conventional ideas about the benefits of good listening: better relationships, more effective communication, improved teamwork and leadership, personal growth, and so on.

But these are only second-order effects. They are the surface appearances of something deeper. You can have them all but would completely miss the point of why good listening is important.

It’s the transformative, almost mystical quality when two people truly connect through a deep sense of understanding. It opens up a space that would be inaccessible without it.

The best approximation to this magic is an excerpt from the book Momo by Michael Ende, a children’s book that is actually for adults. In one of the first chapters, he describes the effect Momo has on the people around her.