How long can you lend your ear?

Hello my friend rajib Ji, Well for me, it all depends upon topic and my situation. If topic is generating curiosity, I would keep listening, remmeber I do not like listening same thing verytime, nor I would like to klisten repeating like a ny class room lecture. Now compare historical lecture by Swami Vivekananda at Chicago.

Hi krajib! If I say that I am a good listener, it will be like blowing my own trumphet. Yes, I can say with conviction that I'm a good listener and I love to listen to others. I feel that though it will be practically difficult to pay unhindered and continous attention to a lecture being delievered, yet if the presentation is good, I would concentrate for the entire period. Nonetheless, I would like to prefer small break of 5 mintues after every one hour during the lecture.

I consider myself a good listener mainly coz I consider most people around me talk utter crap and its best to keep quiet and give them that importance. Its no point arguing with them...they are the know-it-alls!

I have been a good listener since the time I have learned to listen. My friends confide in me knowing that i would listen, empathize and would keep their words within me forever. About lectures and lecturers, I can listen to an gripping session of interesting class any day. It has to be either amazingly interesting or the lecturer has to be handsome enough.

well dada,i don't have much patience but i have good qualities of an actor, i keep listening when i am supposed to, i don't yawn or make any gestures which would let the person know that i am getting bored or i am not interested but i keep waiting for the speaker to to stop speaking. once the speaker stops i take a sigh of relief. when the speaker's words are important for my development or when the session is interactive then i tend to make notes so that i don't lose track of the speaker. well, too much of talking has never helped anyone, even the best orators seem like a damaged loud speaker when they talk too much and at length. as of me, i like to talk short and precise and i also like to listen short and pricise

Thats quite long hours. But it depends on the topic. I will listen to the speaker until he will finish. But if I feel the topic is not interested I think I feel sleepy after just a minutes. I cant wait long. So before I go for some talk like that I will know first the topic so that I can decide If I will go or not.

Hi rajib, I know that there are some good speakers in the world but three hours is a long time without a break. Nothing is good in excess. Blessings.

It depends on the person and the subject. If it is a friend who needs someone to listen to them I can listen all day. If it is a lecture it depends on the subject--there aren't many subjects that don't get boring after about an hour!

Well, it depends who i am talking to.. i mean, if he/she's my hubby or family member for instance my brother or little sister, then i can sit all day listening to his/her problems.. but if he/she's just a not so close friend then probably i will skip from listening most especially if i am not in the mood to talk and listen..

Well, I think what you pointed out in your post says it all. How long you can listen to someone really depends on the speaker, mostly, and the topic secondarily. There are times when a great speaker can make even the most mundane of topics seem like the greatest thing to listen and learn about. Then there are times when you can be really interested in something and the speaker just ruins the whole experience. The best case, though, is when you have a great speaker talking about something you enjoy. These times I could listen forever. I have had classes in school that have lasted upwards of 2 hours. I have gone to lecture series that have gone all day with short breaks here and there, those are rough.

That lecturer must really be good. A person can last two hours for an exciting movie. But for a lecture, that must call for a break or a recess. There are 3 hour classes in the academe. Albeit the professors would dismiss the class after two and a half hours.

I can listen to a person's lecture for about 15 mins and no more. After that, my attention naturally gets diverted. Though if it is an interesting one(and I see everybody is enjoying it), after much daydreaming I again try to listen to what the person says. If its boring, then I start counting my breaths to stop myself from snoozing off.

I consider myself quite a good listener. I have no problem listening to a person who "talks about boring stuff". I admit that sometimes I kinda log off my ears and let my mind wander somewhere else, but I can concentrate to listen to the person without a problem. I'm think I'm patiente,too.

it depends on the topic, if the topic is non sense, annoying or eewww of course i will walk out.. i can't stand along that kind of conversation..

there is always a limit to every thing. and all good and bad things must come to an end sooner or later. it all depends what is the cotext and the content and who is telling the story, etc. etc.. happy mylotting!!

As long as he knows how to handle his audience and keeping the atmosphere alive by techniques that his listeners would not get drousy and bored, I won't lose my patience. Should he'll just be the one talking for three hours straight, not giving his audience a time to participate that would really be boring. If there's an open forum, however giving his listeners chances to express their views or ask questions or suggestions in relation to the topic his discussing, and maybe a little sense of humour, well for me I can lend my ear for 3 hours or more.

Three hours is a long time. I guess it would depend on a few things for me. If the lecture was interesting to me, if I was sleepy already..stuff like that. The longest I have stayed alert with a lecture would have been a couple of hours.

I can listen to whatever other people say. I am a very good listener. I do not care what the other person says. The content or quality of the speech is not important to me. The important thing is that the other person is a human being and he has to be listened to. We have to give him the respect which is due to a human being.

There are some days were I can lend an ear all day long.. No problem listening to what ever may be on someone's mind.. Then there are other days I do not have the patience to sit there and listens.. My boyfriend is a trucker.. So he really does not have anyone to talk to while he is on the road.. He can talk a person's ear off about different subjects.. A lot of it is interesting... But it can be quite irritating when I need to get something else done or I am trying to talk about something else and point blank he switches the subject... or when he repeats the same story over and over.. at least 4 times a month.. I can lend an ear to most people... They can talk about anything, I may have some advice.. or there are sometimes someone just needs a person to listen, be their wall, everyone needs that from time to time..

i say i m a good listener i can stay say upto 5 hrs continuous but after that i cant say i may sleep