Rob Greenlee says interview hosts should listen actively instead of reading from prepared questions. Glancing at notes makes you miss the valuable nuggets your guest is actually saying. Stay present and you'll catch the moments worth keeping.
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And the host needs to be an active listener too, which can be challenging because a lot of hosts of interview shows will go into the interview with, let's say, a list of questions, right? They will want to cover those questions and make sure that they cover it. And what that does mentally is it tends to distract the host because they probably have their notes in front of them, whether it be on a piece of paper or on a screen. And while you're guest is talking, they're reading ahead of what question they're going to ask next in the conversation, and they could miss these little nuggets of what your guest is talking about in his or her conversation with you that then maybe you can like