The Lost Art of Listening

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ISBN: 9798235736009

The Key to Opening Hearts and Minds

Anshuman Sharma

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English

Anshuman Sharma
15 April 2026

Business communication & presentation; Self-help & personal development; Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem

This book is about listening, not hearing, not waiting for a chance to react. Not just auditory perception, the mechanical vibration of air on an eardrum, but the whole human act of receiving another person, a situation, or even your own buried knowledge. Listening, as we'll explore it here, is the most undervalued human capacity. It costs nothing. It requires no technology. And its absence is behind nearly every broken relationship, failed organization, political disaster, and private heartbreak of the modern age.

This is not a book of techniques, though it contains practical guidance. It is not a self-help book, though it will change how you live if you let it. It is an investigation into what may be the most important and most neglected skill we possess, the ability to hear what is being said, what is not being said, and what is trying to be said but cannot find the words.

We will begin with loss, what happened to our collective ability to listen, and why it deteriorated so fast. Then we'll look at the architecture of attention itself, because listening turns out to be an act of radical attention in a world designed to fracture it. We'll examine the body's role in listening, because hearing is not just a cognitive event, it's a full-body experience that most of us have learned to ignore. We'll confront the courage it takes to listen, real listening, the kind that might change your mind. We'll cross political divides, enter failing organizations, sit at the kitchen table with couples in crisis. We'll learn to listen to ourselves, which may be the hardest listening of all. And we'll explore what it might mean to build a culture, a family, a company, a country, that actually hears.

The world is talking. It has never stopped talking. The question is whether anyone is still listening.

Let's find out.

By: Anshuman Sharma
Imprint: Anshuman Sharma
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9798235736009
Pages: 110
Publication Date: 15 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anshuman is an author and knowledge creator who has transformed the lives and work of people from every continent. His groundbreaking ideas in Thinking, Communication, Personality and Storytelling are revolutionary, simple and effective. His belief in simplicity has created powerful solutions that can be used by everyone effortlessly. Experience the free material from following links: https: //direct.me/anshuman