chapter5

I really really enjoyed the third paragraph on page 237 running into 238. It talks about judging people/things before you get to really understand/know them. I have judged other people many times in my life before really getting to know them, and then have been totally and completely suprised to find the real them. In the text it talks about someone having an older woman in her class and automatically thinking that person is probably just like her mom. Then they were assigned partners for a group project and she found out that this woman knew a lot of cool things! I think that should be an important lesson to everyone.

I like how the book breaks down questions into different parts. There are closed questions and open quetions. You want to make sure you have a variety of both and not too much of just one type of question. On page 244 it talks about learning how to listen. I think that when most people read that they probably think that is stupid because everyone knows how to listen. But there are key methods to listening that most people don't even realize. Good listeners don't interrupt or move conversations back to themselves. They focus on the person talking.