Conversation works like currency, and its value depends on whether you're listening with emotional ears or logical ears. The speaker argues that identifying and measuring your emotions lets you manage them better, leading to clearer communication and more purposeful direction.
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Conversation is currency, and some of y'all money low. But I could tell you why. It's because you're not sure what kind of emotional ears you working with. What do I mean by that? When you're listening or hearing something, are you processing it with emotional ears or logical ears, or maybe a combination of both? And what does that mean? With your emotional ears, whenever you hear something, your feelings take over in your response. With logical ears, your thought process takes over with the response. And if you're listening through both, there's a mixture. But whichever way you're listening, Those are the type of responses that you end up with when something comes your way. And so to increase the value of your conversation, because conversation is currency, you need to be mindful of what type of emotional ears do you have. But all this does is help you understand where you're coming from so you know where you're going. Truth of the matter is, unidentified emotions can never be managed, and you'll never be able to manage what you're not willing to measure.