The Art of Communicating

De: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrado por: Dan Woren

Zen master Thick Nhat Hanh, best-selling author of Peace is Every Step and one of the most respected and celebrated religious leaders in the world, delivers a powerful path to happiness through mastering life's most important skill: How do we say what we mean in a way that the other person can really hear? How can we listen with compassion and understanding?

Communication fuels the ties that bind, whether in relationships, business, or everyday interactions. Most of us, however, have never been taught the fundamental skills of communication - or how to best represent our true selves. Effective communication is as important to our well-being and happiness as the food we put into our bodies. It can be either healthy (and nourishing) or toxic (and destructive).

In this precise and practical guide, Zen master and Buddhist monk Thick Nhat Hanh reveals how to listen mindfully and express your fullest and most authentic self. With examples from his work with couples, families, and international conflicts, The Art of Communicating helps us move beyond the perils and frustrations of misrepresentation and misunderstanding to learn the listening and speaking skills that will forever change how we experience and impact the world.

©2013 Unified Buddhist Church (P)2013 HarperCollinsPublishers

Illuminating and practical advice

The sage advice and poetry of this valued text is worth many listenings. It was well done. I'm glad I took the time, it has enriched my life greatly.

Very informative

Everyone need to read this book! It gave me a lot of work insight. Highly recommended.

Communication is key

This book has allowed me to better understand, organize, and teach myself how to communicate better within myself and with people around me. I probably will listen to this often.

Required adult listening

This book has done wonders by allowing me to see things from another perspective. simple, basic, true

Very well put together

Great book. Reminds of the power of stillness and love for others and one self.

5 stars all the way

Everyone would benefit from the wisdom in this book. It’s my new bible and I just start right over when I finish it.

The most important thing is that the person has a right to express their feelings and emotions freely without being judged For

Easy listen I love it when I hear people say that they don’t know how to speak are the best

Super Helpful

This was really good and there are parts of it that have vastly improved how I interact with people in my life, making me more compassionate.

Having said that, Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings are amazing when he teaches them, only half as useful when someone else does. He has a sense of humor, he's TEACHING that a sense of humor is important, but these narrators they keep hiring totally miss it and deliver things that are clearly jokes (which you recognize if you've actually listened to Thich Nhat Hahn teaching) very seriously as profound bits of wisdom, radically changing the meaning, and making him sound remote and unrelateable. So disappointing. The guy is funny, that's who he is, if he's too busy to read the books himself, I really wish they'd hire actors to do it and make them actually listen to him first. I'd recommended reading everything available he's narrated himself first (there seem to be a few things, start with Peacemaking), then once you know who he is, tackling these badly narrated works with an alertness to pick up on places where the meaning is changed by the poor narration.

transformative illustration of skills

it runs formative illustration of skills rarely talked about and Western culture. I would recommend listening to the spoke to anyone that has the feeling that there communication is not as efficient as possible

The cake

If there’s one thing you remember, it’s the cake. This book has so many means to communicate better. Not just communicate but to live better and have better relationships.