listen carefully

It’s been relatively easy to make progress on this whilst with my family over the vacations. It’s a habit – thinking about what someone else says, and giving them time to say it, and thinking about how to get them to develop what they’ve said. Hopefully I can take this back to university with me next week.

I want to learn to listen (a) routinely, so that I don’t have to think about whether I’m doing it and (b) in great detail, picking up more of the minor nuances of what people say.
I also want to hear better: I seem to be finding it harder and harder to hear especially in crowded situations.