The 5 Lessons Of Interest
We all have something to share with others. That could be a skill, a talent, a funny story, a serious story, time or a number of other things. But, what do people really want us to share with them? What is the level of interest that people have in our lives? We want to discuss the topic of how being interested in others is more important than being interesting to others. This 5 part blog series will discuss the idea of being interested in our family, home and relationships rather than focusing on making ourselves interesting to others.
This post is going to introduce the topic in general to the complete series and will be pretty brief. Here is the idea behind this conversation.
Introduce Something Interesting
I recently listened to a portion of a lecture to a class of marketers and it discussed that the ideal marketer can talk to anyone. That is the ultimate dream to sell anyone anything and get them to buy into what is being sold. The lecture didn’t end there. The professor continued to discuss that people do not want to be sold things, they want to be sold experiences. I agree with that and this has been discussed by others that I have listened to in recent years.
To date, I haven’t personally sold anything on this website, I have linked to amazon items in certain posts and there is a lead magnet in the header that give away a free PDF template of a birdhouse design that I created. The email followups promote either buying a kit of the birdhouse or buying the birdhouse prebuilt but for the most part, I just write content surrounding my feelings and opinions on how I have been able to have a little success, and failure, at being a dad in hopes that other dads will have a leg up in their own relationships with their kids and their relationship with their partner.
The Value of the Lecture
The lecture finally concluded with the presenter stating, and I’m paraphrasing, “people don’t want to be talked to, they want to be listened to. They want to be valued, so be interested, not interesting.” This really struck me. I feel like this blog, in general, surrounds that topic and I have intended to provide value to readers with every post. Whether I have been successful, I am unsure but I feel as though what I write could help others.
Having laid the groundwork, we are going to move to the topics. I guess I could just end this series with saying be interested in your kids and family and focus less on yourself, done. It isn’t that simple for any of us.
What will be the 5 Lessons
We will first discuss the topic of how we communicate with others. We will then discuss how we need to communicate with others. Then we will discuss how we can show interest in others. We will follow that with combining our passions with others’ interests. We will finalize this series with discussing the long term impact to us and others by showing interest in others.
Enjoy the post series and, as always, keep building.