Here is a tip to become a sympathetic listener. I learnt this from the James Valentine radio show. When someone is ranting or pouring out their heart in deep angst, utter only vowels. "Ahhh" "Ehhhh" "Ooooh" "Ohhhh" "Uhhhh".
Many people attempt to prolong a conversation by asking question after question, however this is an abnormal way of communicating. Grunting during a conversation expresses engagement as well as interest. :P
"Everything I do today seems to have a bit of a jelssie internal monologue going along with it." - Bec
"Can you put me on the bit where people said stuff about jelssie?!" - Christine
"I've heard of it" - Bryan
"It's worrying how much we learn from Jelssie! ;)" - Jess J
"Raises the word vacuous to a whole new level." - Ian
"Brilliant" - Sophia
"I've been reading it from time to time" - David
"I have a confession to make. I've been stalking jelssie" - Felix
"It educates/amuses/entertains me very much" - Hui Yee
"I heart jelssie" - Ben
"With 300+ blogposts to catch up on, but so little time, what does he read? http://jelssie.blogspot.com of course" - Doug
"It's like the highlight of my life. Please!" - Georgina
"Jelssie is my favourite blog, and I don't even really read blogs" - Em
"You wont get anything less than the big issues here" - Anna
"I haven't read it in a while" - Ben
Jess and Elsie have many things in common:
Jesus adventures in orthodontics 31 mutual facebook friends respect for the rules of Trinny and Susannah the Kingsford ghetto profound thoughts banananomics Jillian Michaels workout DVDs
yes, Mike calls them "grunts"
ReplyDeleteMany people attempt to prolong a conversation by asking question after question, however this is an abnormal way of communicating. Grunting during a conversation expresses engagement as well as interest. :P
I love it when wisdom is confirmed by multiple sources!
ReplyDeleteYou know what I like about that post? I used the word 'utter'.