If I were to conduct market research as to what one factor makes a good communicator, I would not get this answer. Most people say, "Good listening skills, the ability to speak clearly and being en expert on your subject.
For me if a communicator is not curious about what someone else is saying, the full measure of the words, meanings, feelings, and implications, the attempt to really be heard will fail.
Why aren't we more curious in this process? Is it because we are stressed, have no time, or just don't like someone else?
I think it is because no one does it to us. No one seems to care about what we say and we "are not the sparkle in someone else's eye."
That's where it helps to be spiritual and know deeper than deep that God cares and that you are the sparkle in His eye. Guaranteed!
If you have ever experienced feeling and knowing that, then it might be easier to be curious about someone else.
When we stop being curious, we are dead. We may be the walking dead, but we are dead.
I want to be alive, fully alive. Curiosity is the key.
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