He recalled on how Saint Murialdo in his era assisted poor and abandoned youth in Turin through charitable outreach, but with a long term goal to offer them a dignified future through education and trade schools. Quoting Saint Leonard Murialdo, the Pope called on the Josephites to follow in his footsteps by aiming to read the signs of the times, understand its challenges, and look creatively for new remedies and outreach. He encouraged them to pray for the Lord's continued blessings to give them strength to respond in ever new ways to their charism of educating young people. The Pope wrote that going back to the sources of their foundation can help the religious men draw new energies for the future, while also recalling the Lord's blessings on them. Joseph, offering his congratulations to the members of the Istitute as they begin the 150th anniversary of their foundation in Turin by Saint Leonard Murialdo on 19 March 1873. “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.Pope Francis has sent a letter to the Superior General of the Congregation of St.
If we want others to trust us and truly communicate with us, we must show them we care by actually listening to what they’re saying. There is so much more to listening than just hearing what someone is saying. The rest is how people behave and the way they say things. The rest comes from body language (53 percent) and how we say words, or the tone and feeling reflected in our voice (40 percent).” Only SEVEN percent of communication is through words.
Listening with just our ears isn’t good enough, “ because only 7 percent of communication is contained in the words we use. If we want to truly understand others and actually listen to what they’re saying, we must listen with our eyes and heart as well as our ears.
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We take classes in school on the other primary ways of communication–reading, writing, and speaking, but nothing on how to listen.Ĭovey says “When people talk we seldom listen because we’re usually too busy preparing a response, judging, or filtering their words through our own paradigms.” We often use poor listening styles by spacing out when we’re listening, pretending to listen while our mind wanders, selectively listening, only listening to the words they’re saying and not paying attention to how they’re saying it or their body language, and being self-centered when we listen. The problem is, most of us don’t know how to listen. Communicating correctly and seeking to understand others is crucial in getting those we love to trust us and open up. One of the deepest needs of the human heart is to be understood. The fifth habit reminds us to listen first, talk second. We don’t make an effort to see things from their perspective and we quickly try to solve their problems using our own life paradigms. Sometimes it’s our tendency to swoop in and try and solve other people’s problems before we even understand exactly what the problem is.
“Listen, or thy tongue will make thee deaf.” The fifth habit in 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is Seek first to understand, then to be understood. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens–Seek first to understand, then to be understood.