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Listening with understanding and empathy
Understand others!
Devoting mental energy to another person's thoughts and ideas. Make an effort to perceive another's point of view and emotions. (Click here to see more.)
Examples of students exhibiting this habit
- Sara reads characters the way she “reads” people when she annotates (see some she bookmarked)!
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