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Imprint: Harvill Secker
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Published: 23/01/2020
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ISBN: 9781787300958
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Length: 288 Pages
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Dimensions: 240mm x 28mm x 162mm
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Weight: 522g
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RRP: £16.99
You’re Not Listening
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What You’re Missing and Why It Matters
*Picked by the Observer, Stylist and Waterstones as a best non-fiction book for 2020*
When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you?
This life-changing book will transform your conversations forever.
At work, we’re taught to lead the conversation.
On social media, we shape our personal narratives.
At parties, we talk over one another. So do our politicians.
We’re not listening.
And no one is listening to us.
Now more than ever, we need to listen to those around us. New York Times contributor Kate Murphy draws on countless conversations she has had with everyone from priests to CIA interrogators, focus group moderators to bartenders, her great-great aunt to her friend's toddler, to show how only by listening well can we truly connect with others.
Listening has the potential to transform our relationships and our working lives, improve our self-knowledge, and increase our creativity and happiness. While it may take some effort, it's a skill that can be learnt and perfected.
When all we crave is to understand and be understood, You're Not Listening shows us how.
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Imprint: Harvill Secker
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Published: 23/01/2020
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ISBN: 9781787300958
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Length: 288 Pages
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Dimensions: 240mm x 28mm x 162mm
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Weight: 522g
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RRP: £16.99
Reviews
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"The premise of this book couldn't be more timely... inspiringly profound… Smart and playful... It feels like a reiteration of something essential... Murphy is here to remind us – entertainingly and compellingly – exactly why it matters so much, especially right now. Hear, hear."
Viv Groskop, Observer
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"Gripping from start to finish... brilliant…extraordinarily interesting…full of meat and gold."
Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show
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"Fiercely topical... You're Not Listening is an intriguing and constructive take on the problem... and a manual for better communication. Murphy’s book is intelligent and thought-provoking… Listening is when someone take a real interest in who you are…a moment of attunement and understanding that sticks in both heads. We could all do with some of that."
Melanie Reid, The Times
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"It’s time for a spot of re-education... A fascinating guide to something we assume we do automatically, yet for the most part do very badly... The art of listening is really the art of being human."
Stephen Moss, Guardian
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"We are losing this most crucial, arguably, of our skills in the modern world... I'll be adopting Murphy's advice... and I will be employing "support" responses everywhere."
Charlotte Edwardes, Sunday Times Style Magazine
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"As any Samaritans volunteer will tell you, learning to listen properly can change lives — your own included. You’re Not Listening perfectly describes a problem a lot of us face in the smartphone age, and how to fix it. "
Holly Brockwell, Evening Standard
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"Murphy has correctly identified a problem... This isn't a neo-Luddite manifesto, urging us to wean ourselves decisively off our phones, but it is a useful reminder that happiness often lies elsewhere."
Amelia Gentleman, Guardian
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"This lively book makes an impassioned plea for listening… an instructive and thought-provoking book that will help readers think about the way they frame questions and responses to forge intimacy."
Emma Jacobs, Financial Times
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"In an age of echo chambers and multiple narratives, there is a lot of noise going on but very little listening. In this insightful, cogently reasoned book, Murphy extols the myriad virtues of this underused skill... A thoughtful, eloquent volume that could transform not just your relationships but your own worldview as well."
Waterstones Best Non-fiction Books for 2020
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"If you’re like most people, you don’t listen as often or as well as you’d like. There’s no one better qualified than a talented journalist to introduce you to the right mindset and skillset - and this book does it with science and humour."
Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take
