Just Listen

Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone

By: Mark Goulston MD

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist, business consultant, and coach, author Mark Goulston combines his background with the latest scientific research to help listeners turn the "impossible" and "unreachable" people in their lives into allies, devoted customers, loyal colleagues, and lifetime friends. Just Listen provides simple but powerful techniques listeners can use to really get through to people.

You'll learn how to: make a powerful and positive first impression; listen effectively; make even a total stranger (potential client) feel understood; talk an angry or aggressive person away from an instinctual, unproductive reaction and toward a more rational mindset; and achieve buy-in - the linchpin of all persuasion, negotiation, and sales.

Whether they're coworkers, friends, strangers, or enemies, the first make-or-break step in persuading anyone to do anything is getting them to hear you out. With this groundbreaking audiobook, listeners will be able to master the fine but critical art of effective communication.

©2015 Mark Goulston (P)2020 HarperCollins Leadership

Get this book and listen to it once a year!

If you get past the author's self praising parts keep popping up throughout the book, especially at the beginning (sorry Dr.Goulston), this is a book that will serve you very well in life. I recommend listening to this book at least 2 or 3 times back to back, as it will help you to retain more knowledge with every read. I especially liked the part about BPD - Borderline personality disorder as briefly mentioned in it, and with a personal experince, I can confirm his honesty and truthfulness in it.

I hate to take off an start only for the performance for using very loud *Beeps* in one of the chapters. Initially I had to skip that chapter all together but then i made myself to come back and listen to it with a cringe. This is a book for grown ups and it is unnecessary to censor it with interruptive Beeps every 3 seconds in my opinion triggering peoples tinnitus, otherwise the performance of the narrator is spot on for this kinda book!
Highly recommend this book!

Great Book. Gives lots of technique to follow.

This book gives a story then gives a solution then gives steps to accomplish this solution.

Later parts of the book referenced the beginning chapters.
This made me listen again to some of the beginner chapters to grasp the concept.

Excellent book

The narration is well done and easy to listen to.
Don’t listen to the naysayers, this book is worth your time. I will listen to it over and over

Great listen

I’ve learned several techniques from this book I’m hoping to implement more often. Give it a listen

insightful

This book contains so many tools to be a better listener, communicator, and person. If you are looking to get ahead professionally, encourage your family to be closer, than this is the book for you. This is a book to be saved and listen/read over and over.

This was the best book I’ve ever read. I read it twice.

The author is brilliant. He had so many great examples of how to resolve problems, handle conflicts, interview better… Here are too much to list because I loved every chapter. I have it on audiobook and plan to go back through every chapter and take notes to put on my wall in my office. I will look for every book he’s written and buy it

Great read

This book gives great perspective as to how to deal with a wide range of social interactions and how to make the most of it. It is a great read and a highly recommend

Great Applied EQ

I can tell that the author practices EQ in his life & uses it to help others, I find this to be admirable and a great example of how to apply the principles in practical everyday ways. Didn’t have the chance to learn EQ in learning institutions and now that I have found the importance of it I believe this book is a rudimentary step in that process.

Insightful with a Bit of Humor

I thought this book might be a little dry and after reading the summary wasn’t sure I wanted to read it for improvement at work. I gave it a chance and was glad to find it incredibly insightful for work and personal life. Having thought of myself as a good listener, I realized that to not be the case. The book was written in short chapters that allowed me to quickly work on applying lessons learned before completing. I look forward to seeing the evolution of my listening skills with further application of what I have heard. As a new parent I also flagged some sections to come back to, as I am sure I will be dealing with how to communicate with a teenager soon enough.

Great ideas

This is probably the first book I’ve listened to of this type- where the main focus is to get better at communicating with others. Whereas a fair amount of the examples he gives don’t apply to me or my daily situations, there were a some that did and I’m thankful to have gained that information from this audiobook.