A lot of people get into psychology because they think they have good listening skills, but are you really a good listener? What does it mean to be a good listener? In this episode I look at a fascinating acting exercise created by Sanford Meisner called the “repetition exercise” which trains actors how to truly listen. Are you as good a listener as these trained actors?
Resources on Sanford Meisner and Carl Rogers
 
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Confused – where is the link to download the podcast?
Love the site – psychology grad student here.
Hi Thomas – sorry for the confusion. I’m trying out a new audio player with this episode. If you roll over the black rectangle above you’ll see a few small squares in the lower left. Roll over them and you’ll see that it says “menu”. click on that and then you’ll see the download arrow. You can, of course, subscribe in iTunes as well. Enjoy the podcast. Michael
Congrats, Michael, on the 5000 subscribers, that is pretty exciting! You have a lot of good stuff so it isn’t hard to believe. This was definitely pretty confusing to me – especially when I think about trying to incorporate it into listening but I liked that you point out that all the “active listening” techniques really aren’t listening at all…
Thanks Kevin – yea, I hit 5,000 subscribers just a couple weeks ago and I was happy to see it. Just a number I guess, but you know….As far as incorporating the Meisner technique – I don’t think we can use the technique of repeating in our daily lives, but I think the idea of keeping our minds “empty and open” while listening to others is an idea to keep in mind. Again thanks!