The worst thing you could do is to listen, do you think it's true?

You are absolutely right! We tend to hear what we want to hear and that's music to our ears. Otherwise a 5 minute of listening is like 5 hours of hell.

Yes.it's true

Why are you in a position to be listening to someone who bores you? If it is being with a partner who bores you, you need a new partner. If it is work related, you need to try to find some other line of work that you find more interesting. Sure, sometimes you are caught in a work situation or a social situation where some speakers or people are very boring; but even then you should try to listen. One never knows when one will learn something useful.

Hi I went back to college to get my degree in my fifties and had one Enlish professor who droned when he talked so the subject got lost in his pronunciation.,I actually once fell asleep during his lectures til the young man sitting next to me shook my arm. I got a decent grade in his class but I did not enjoy it. now the other one who pranced as he talked and raised his voice at the start of a sentence got my attention as I did 'learn from him, despite his odd way of walking as he talked. He seemed to love his subject and I learned to love it too.

In this world there are a few people who just want to listen. the ears that listen are less than the moth that speak. I have been a good listener. I have made a lot of friends bcos of this. I listen to people first then i tell them incidents of what they are going through so that they dont feel offended. I too learn from their experiences when i listen to them.

I must admit there have been times like these. We have several speakers coming into our school last term and what that did, it used to stretch the assembly from half an hour, to 1 hour in a half! Now, you're sitting there, for 90 minutes, listening to someone up the front talking about different universities...you wish you'd never been born with ears. Don't get me wrong, talking about uni is important, expecially for my age - but that's something I'd rather use the internet for.

why i pick what i want to talk about or hear about. also having ocd dont help at all. but when its comes to talking to someone who's having just plain trouble then i can sit there and listen. unless they want self pitty over dumb things they've done its like shut up already..

...especially when they are trying to make you pay a big amount of money to sign up! Sometimes the best you can do is also to listen because there are many opportunities that come our way that we miss because we were too busy to pay attention

The company organises training for the staff. After repeated reminders, when the seminar/ training starts, the attendance will be 15-20 percent only. Now the company send memos saying that those who do not attend the training/ seminars will affect their annual compensation (negative evaluation report). In seminars, trainings what is happening there. Just sit and listen. From the morning 10 to evening 5.00 pm, sleepy and boring. The same things are repeated and repeated. All will get bored with that. Activities, games, etc are there still the session will be boring. I think the training methods and speech styles are to be changed. Also, the process has changed a lot. But still people hate it. Why?? Yes, repetition. People are ready to work. But such kind of killing is not sufferable. Why? Most of the things we know. They are trying to impose the same thing in a different way, the we don't want to suffer any more. It is also seems that people are gone through everything possible and the same repeition will not like at any manner. But rarely people used to say that I am an 'excellent listener'. If we want to get into such a stage, the commentator should be of capable to deliver such subject and introduce in such a way. So, try to be a good listener with variety from the speaker. Regards, Thank-s

we have to be smart listeners too.if i thought it doesn't concern me at all with regards to my interests and needs, why keep listening.but of course we have to also be pretty sure with what informations we think are essential to our own lives that we won't only wait for anyone to spoon feed them to us. it is important to allot some time to research on these topics on our own so that when we finally get to find the right person talking about them then we become very involved and active listeners too.

Sometimes we have to lend some ears to others, listen for a while and learn from it,yes that is true listening to topics which is out of our interest is boring, so before engaging in one or trap in a conversation that makes no sense to you, better know the law of Escaping...Lol, like going to the toilet or receiving a phone call from your mobile and whoooosh escape..Lol..or the other way around...

Sure, sometimes a topic of conversation, or possibly even the conversationalist, may be boring to me. However, part of any and all relationships is the sharing of one's interests and conversation is one way this is done. The topic may be boring to the listener but out of respect for the speaker's interest, I will listen, and will do so with enthusiasm. I would hope this person would do same with me when the conversation properties are flipped. Besides, I've learned along life's way, not listening or caring about what others have to say is a sure sign of a "me-me-me" person, for which I have no desire to be in the company of anymore. Listening is learning and sharing; I'm all for it.

I agree that if someone is speaking about something that does not interest me, i do get bored. I guess that i would find excuses like i have an urgent meeting or need to go somewhere and leave.

In the official boring meetings, it happens. If we're not interested in the topic, obviously will get boredom. But i can say listening to one's speech is the better way to attract them. Its true. I implemented it few times. People will be happy if they come to know their speech is heard by someone interestingly. To make our dear ones happy, listen to them. And another thing even if we're not interested in the topic, continuous listening will create interest slowly. Like we do in our school days to listen the classes. At first, the thing may not familar to us so that we might lost our interst. But if we start to listen it, it may become our interest.

i think you are right, especially if they are trying to sell you something. Ssome people go to seminars because of a friend or because of a freebie. I wouldn't think about staying.

For a question of education what corresponds is to listen to the person who is speaking, but it has happened to me often to get bored and to want to go away of the place, is very common in the faculty, but when we are not interested what they are saying, we do not pay attention and think about other things, there is alone a ripple that we cannot stand.

I think that the listening is the politest thing to do to a conversation partner..

Listening to some random talk is bloody hell almost the worst, listening to one's heart talking is the best thing.

I agree there are those topics that we are not interested in that bore us. But sometimes it depends on the speaker, there are charismatic people that will spark your interest but these guys are pretty rare talents. Some reason why these are boring: a)we are not interested b)the speaker himself isn't interested c)the ambiance is boring d)the speaker's voice is unlively e)we are hungry (lol, seriously, if our body can't take it, neither can our head)