One thing I have come to realize is that love is not always happiness.
Through the years, I have heard that the average person speaks at about 150-160 words per minute, but can listen at a rate of about 1,000 words per minute. What is going on during all that extra mind time? _ Our minds are racing ahead and preparing for the next thing we are going to say._ We are preoccupied with other thoughts, priorities, and distractions._ Our subconscious filters are thumbing through our database of memories, judgments, experiences, perspectives, and opinions to frame how we are going to interpret what we think someone is saying.
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Through the years, I have heard that the average person speaks at about 150-160 words per minute, but can listen at a rate of about 1,000 words per minute. What is going on during all that extra mind time? _ Our minds are racing ahead and preparing for the next thing we are going to say._ We are preoccupied with other thoughts, priorities, and distractions._ Our subconscious filters are thumbing through our database of memories, judgments, experiences, perspectives, and opinions to frame how we are going to interpret what we think someone is saying.
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