One of our other experts on the site, Jim Ludwig, recently posted the first installment of an article entitled “Recognize your Listening Blocks to Improve Communication”. It’s a very fine article too: informative, well written, and offers some useful information. And it got me to thinking: not all listening blocks are necessarily a bad thing – like the “fight or flight” reflex is not a bad thing. Sometimes a listening block can be a self-defense or a self-preservation instinct coming to the fore.
