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Being a good listener brings many benefits: gathering useful information, making others feel like they matter to you, sustaining a sense of connection with people, and stepping out of your own familiar frame of reference. Remember that being asked a question — particularly, a series of questions — can feel invasive, critical, or controlling to the person on the receiving end; think of all the times that kids get asked questions as a prelude to a scolding or other punishment. If you sense there’s still some problematic fuzziness or wiggle room in the other person’s answers, or simply more to learn, you could ask the question again, maybe in a different way. Or ask additional questions that could help surface the deeper layers of the other person’s thoughts, feelings, and intentions.

Simply put, networking is creating relationships with industry professionals who might be able to help you in a direct or indirect manner. And yes, it’s perfectly fine to admit you’re an actor, but that’s not the common ground you’re looking for. Now let’s revisit my definition of networking: Networking is creating relationships with industry professionals who might be able to help you in a direct or indirect manner. So don’t spiral into a suicidal depression if I don’t return your e-mail after we bonded at a party.

According to a report by Hongkiat, Google is a strong supporter of creativity in the workplace, creating a “20%” program that gives its developers permission to spend 20% of their work hours on a creative project of their own. This way of thinking has caught on and has made its way into many workplaces, giving companies new ideas and strategies to grow their business. Here is what they recommend: Let GO of Limiting Self Beliefs I’m amazed at how many leaders invest large amounts of money and time to kick off new initiatives but then tell everyone all the limits they have to get it done. To learn to fly we have to test our wings, and that can mean being given the chance to test and try things, within reason.

Unless I’ve made a mental miscue when swapping out a finished notebook or something, I do not leave the house without my pocket notebook resting in my hip pocket or my shirt pocket, with a trusty pen right there beside it for jotting notes. Through using my pocket notebook for taking notes during classes, lectures, and so forth, I’ve landed upon a very good strategy that really works well for absorbing and processing the new things that I learn. If I’m going to take longer notes on something, I draw a single line through one of the blank lines as a separator before and after the notes, and I title what the notes are about and where I took them. Whenever I’m reading a book where I’m trying to learn something, attending a talk, or listening to a course lecture (I take a lot of online classes for personal enrichment), I take notes in my pocket notebook.