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Quick Hits are 10-minute conversations designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to hear other people‘s thoughts on a variety of subjects. In February of 2021 I and the members of my mastermind group thought other people might enjoy listening in on some of the lively conversations we were having. But we realized that no one was going spend 90-minutes listening to us going on about anything and sometimes nothing. Instead, we decided to pick one topic and have a short conversation to share. I took the reigns because facilitating those types of conversations sounded like fun. Over the course of a few months it grew from just members of our mastermind group to four (sometimes three if schedules go sideways) people from various parts of the world and from ”short” to exactly 10-minutes. Thus was born ”Quick Hits” hosted by me, Dr Robyn. I hope to get caught up with posting them here on PodBean at some point. As of this writing, I have over 100 ”episodes.” If you‘d like to see the videos of these conversations, they are available on my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/DrRobynQuickHits If you have a topic you‘d like to hear discussed, I encouraged you to use the contact page of my website: https://drrobynodegaard.com/ to let me know.
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Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
If you were on the bus or in the grocery store and passed by someone speaking loudly on speaker phone, is it intrusive to offer them a thought about their conversation? Or has that person indirectly included you in their conversation?
I once read an article about a woman who works with deaf students. She had to explain to them that if you’re a hearing person, then hearing is not something you can choose to do. It’s like smelling - if there’s a smell in the room, you’re going to smell it. And I wonder sometimes if people realize that when they are so loud in a public space.
“We assume a sort of privacy if we’re around people we don’t know,” says Simon Cole, CEO of Amphora Research Systems and one my guests on this edition of Quick Hits.
“Some people just like to be heard,” added consultant Dr. Bob Choat. “There is that ego thing…But a lot of people are also not self-aware that this is happening and maybe if we let them know, we could help them to tone it down.”
Under what circumstances should we butt in? Are there times when it’s merited or does it always invite unnecessary conflict?
Career Polish founder Lisa McDonald suggested that it also matters whether the person you’ve overheard is having their conversation on the phone or with others physically around him. “If it’s in person, I’m more likely to butt in. But if it’s on the phone, I’m really good at pretending that I don’t hear things.”
I had a wonderful time discussing this tricky subject with these three brilliant minds. I hope you find our discussion engaging and enjoyable.
Are you likely to butt in or pretend you can’t hear?
Connect with the panelists:
Lisa McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fearlesslisam/
Dr. Bob Choat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobchoat/
Simon Coles: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjcoles/
Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/
Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it: https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/
#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on pertinent subjects. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me. https://www.DrRobynOdegaard.com
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