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How to listen – Oscar Trimboli – Review

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Oscar Trimboli is the host of Apple podcast Deep listening which covers over 100 episodes with a wide selection of personas focussed on listening attribute. He has created an ambassador community on deep listening and is the author of a couple more books, Deep Listening – Impact beyond words and Breakthroughs: How to Confront Assumptions. The introduction for Oscar makes it clear that he wants to make extensive use of his ears than mouth. We as humans are also biologically structured with a couple of ears but a single mouth giving us indications towards the proportion on how much we should be inclined to listen versus speak. Oscar has interviewed over 2000 participants to break down the components of what gets communicated by the speaker and how does one extract true meaning from it.   He throws in an interesting number towards this process, an average human can think 900 words per minute, hear 400 words per minutes and speak 125 words per minute. It essentially means as narrative