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Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Life Coach, Motivational, Personal Development, Mental Health, Life Coaching, Self-help, Education

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Have you ever left a conversation realizing you spoke the entire time and learned absolutely nothing? That moment of awareness struck me after dinner with close friends recently. Despite having an incredible evening filled with stories about travel adventures, I walked away with a troubling realization—I hadn't learned anything new about my friends' lives because I'd dominated the airtime. This simple observation reveals a powerful truth: listening is the secret ingredient to deeper connecti...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:09.8	I'd like to share with you today a very simple and powerful truth that can transform your life
0:16.9	and your relationships truly, truly.
0:20.1	It's generous. It requires very little of you and it enriches
0:24.5	your life. Okay? It really is to listen more, right? Listen more. Most of us are waiting to speak.
0:36.0	Most of us are waiting for the other person to finish their sentence before we dive in with our very clever point. Most of us are waiting to speak. Most of us are waiting for the other person to finish
0:37.9	their sentence before we dive in with our very clever point. Most of us want the air time. I get it.
0:43.5	It's fun to speak. It feels like we're engaging. There's momentum that comes with it. It's energizing.
0:48.9	But the other day, Heath and I had dinner with another couple, this other couple that we love, these friends of
0:55.5	ours, and we had a fantastic time. We went to a restaurant that I love. We shared all this
0:59.9	Mediterranean food and we were talking about a lot. Now, they're really interested in our
1:04.3	travel adventures. So we're speaking about Japan. We were speaking about France. We're speaking
1:08.8	about Hawaii. We were speaking about lots of different countries, lots of different things. And we had this amazing, long,
1:15.6	cool, relaxed dinner. And then as we were walking home, I noticed that I didn't really get a
1:24.3	full update on what my friends were working on and what they were planning.
1:32.6	They were so generous and asking so many questions about what it is that we're planning and doing that I realized I'd spoken too much. I didn't learn anything. Now, by learning something,
1:42.0	I look at this twofold, okay? People who we love, we want to learn about
1:46.6	them. We want to understand them more intimately, more deeply. We want to know what they think.
1:50.9	We want to know how they feel. We want to know what's going on inside of them. That's the basis of
1:56.3	true friendship, isn't it? So when we're talking, talking, talking, we actually don't really get
2:03.3	to understand and connect with another person because they don't get to share very much. And so
2:08.5	an opportunity is lost. And then secondly, when we're the ones doing the talking in a meeting,
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