Kim Gaskill explains why people keep consuming self-improvement content without changing. The difference between hearing and listening matters more than another productivity tip. One resonant insight, delivered the right way, can actually shift how someone acts.
Welcome to a new day. I'm Kim Gaskill and this is the Daily Spark. Listening, that's a dying art that we need to revitalize. People just don't listen well, and there's a difference between listening and hearing. Although I was talking with somebody about a book that I was reading and the book that I'm writing, and we got to talking about— we read a lot of books that basically say the same thing. We read several books on productivity or self-improvement or time management, and all of them generally say the same thing. They just say it in a little different way, have a different tweak or their own twist on the same information. Because let's face it, there really isn't anything new. It's just how it's presented. In a different way. The information is all out there, but the reason that we keep buying new books and taking new courses all on the same subject is because we're looking for that one spark, that one thing that's gonna resonate with us when we hear it. That as we're listening and we could hear it 10 different times from 5 different people, the same exact thing, but then there's that one time that we hear it that we actually hear it. It sinks in, it resonates, and it forces us to take action or to change. Because it was the right time, it was in the right circumstance, it was from the right person, said the right way, that we actually heard it. How many things are you just listening to over and over and over, and you're not hearing what you need to from that information? If you're not hearing what you need to listen to someone or something different. They could all be saying the same thing, but you need to find that unique perspective, that unique voice that allows you to hear. Join me again next time for another Daily Spark.
