Book Review - I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships by Michael S. Sorensen

It's always nice to find someone who knows what they are talking about and can educate me on a subject I'm not as familiar with as I'd like to be.,

I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships by Michael S. Sorensen is a non-fiction book of advice on how to improve relationships thru listening and validation. It is available as an eBook, Audiobook, and those paper things your grandparents used to read.

The Good

Advice. This book offers great advice about how to validate others and truly listen instead of jumping to solutions or judgement, something we naturally want to do. The author provides many examples to help illustrate the point and teach the lesson.

Length. The author wisely chose to make this a short book and avoid padding it with unnecessary filler to make it look bigger and more authoritative.

The Bad

Narration. The author narrates this book himself. He does a good job, but could put a little more enthusiasm in his voice so it wasn't so flat.

What I Would Like to Have Seen

A few more examples in other situations. He tended to stick to very similar situations.

Overall

I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships by Michael S. Sorensen is a quick read that offers excellent advice on how to listen to others and make them feel important. It provides great explanations and examples both what to do and what not to do and why. I highly recommend this book and give it 4.5 out of 5 eReaders.