Tok when I hire someone to work for me I ask a specific question of each and every applicant. I ask them, "how do you know you are a good listener?" I am looking for two things. 1) do they have the ability to use intuition to more effectively communicate and 2) do they properly examine the premise of every statement and word that comes out of another persons mouth. This is good listening.
This. It's amazing how few people pay attention to the information they are already getting... Then ask questions to which they would already have the answers if they would just fucking pay attention... It's not even about being smart... Just fucking pay attention... They can't do it. Even non-priamte animals make higher functioning people than most people...