#76 - The most important social skill EP1

Three years ago Erik learned a skill that completely changed his life - and it only took one minute to learn it. In today's episode, you will get a chance to learn the most important social skill. It's an aspect of listening that will change how you act in all conversations. Today's episode has been split up in four topics: 1. How will listening change your life? 2. What does it mean to be a great listener? 3. What's the best way to learn the skill listening? 4. What is the first thing that you have to do to learn the most important social skill -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person. We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- 1. In the first section of the podcast we dive into the question of "How will listening benefit you?" and we are looking at it from different angles. How will listening help your relationships? How can listening make you a better entrepreneur or help you climbing the career ladder in the office? How can you use listening to get your parents to understand YOU better? All of these are questions that we are addressing. 2. In the second topic we look in to what a great listener looks like. How is a conversation with someone who is really good at it, what are they doing that makes them good? How does it feel to talk to someone that is great at listening and how does it benefit the person being great at listening? 3. Thirdly we look at listening as a the most important social skill and what it takes to learn it. How it can be enough with just one minute for you to completely change how you listen to other people. We are diving into when we realized the value of listening to others and how we wish that we would have realized it earlier in life. 4. In the final part we look at how you can start to become a better listener. What are the first steps to take? What do you do? -- Social media channels: http://linktr.ee/smilingerik http://linktr.ee/emil.e