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Challenging to listen to someone talk for long periods

Kenny_1622

I work in education, and we have events which means people are talking about boring stuff for hours. I find it really challenging to listen to it especially any longer than 30 mins, I feel overwhelmed and over loaded with information and feel burnt out. So I need to take regular breaks inorder to recharge and clear my head. Does anyone else get this 

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  • This was a regular issue at management and board meetings for me in the past.

    The technique I use is to make notes on what is being said so that if I need to dig into any details later it is a lot easier. This approach has a few other advantages:

    1 - you can write things like shopping lists etc on the side so you are using the time productively

    2 - the people talking think they are being interesting enough to merit note taking so helps them feel valid

    3 - moving the focus from keeping all the info in your mind to capturing the headlines on paper can be enough to help you relax enough to take it all in.

    I've had some of my most creative ideas when in this semi trance state of capturing the info, making notes and allowing my mind to work on autopilot. It takes practice but I find it works.

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  • This was a regular issue at management and board meetings for me in the past.

    The technique I use is to make notes on what is being said so that if I need to dig into any details later it is a lot easier. This approach has a few other advantages:

    1 - you can write things like shopping lists etc on the side so you are using the time productively

    2 - the people talking think they are being interesting enough to merit note taking so helps them feel valid

    3 - moving the focus from keeping all the info in your mind to capturing the headlines on paper can be enough to help you relax enough to take it all in.

    I've had some of my most creative ideas when in this semi trance state of capturing the info, making notes and allowing my mind to work on autopilot. It takes practice but I find it works.

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