http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/the-big-ideas/topics/seek-first-to-understand en-us 60 <p>&ldquo;<em>Seek first to understand, then to be understood.&rdquo;</em></p><p>That&rsquo;s Habit #5 of Covey&rsquo;s &ldquo;Seven Habits.&rdquo;</p><p>Seek first to understand, THEN to be understood. I don&rsquo;t know about you, but I&rsquo;ve pretty much gotten that one ass-backwards my whole life.</p><p>Me? I&rsquo;ve been so interested in making sure people understand ME that I rarely slow down and try understand where someone else was coming from.</p><p>How about you?</p><p>Do you (also) spend most of your energy trying to explain yourself or do you <em>seek first to understand, THEN to be understood?</em></p><p>Let&rsquo;s work on that. :)</p> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:43:14 -0000 forums.thinkarete.com:503:221:221 brian http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/503/topics/221