A keen listener
By educbry
@educbry (16)
Philippines
August 5, 2011 6:14am CST
Listening is one of the macro skills in language. It is a skill that we learned since we are a baby. This is very important skill to be effective on our day to day communication. But sometimes, we tend not to listen to other people rather we want to talk all the time. As you listen intently to the stories of other people, you would understand the realities of life. You would gain that understanding of yourself as you reflect on some things in your life. Like Hellen Keller, even she is blind she used her ears to listen intently to her surroundings. My challenge is that how far you listen to other people? Are you a keen listener?
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4 responses
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
7 Aug 11
I'd like to think that I am a good listener. However there are a lot of times where I'd like to hope something but it just most certainly is not as true as I would have liked to think it is. The fact of the matter is that there are going to be a lot of times where I sit down, with full intention of listening to someone but that is really something that really does turn around for not the way that I had intended it to go.
However listening is a very important skill to master for sure. If nothing else, there are a lot of important bits of information that you can pick up. You can hear what a person is saying but if you are not paying attention or you're trying to dominant the conversation, that's going to put you right on a rather bad track to say the very least. Listening is king a lot of the time and there are many times where we do not put that skill to the test. A shame but ultimately true in any number of ways.
@Harmonics (251)
• Philippines
6 Aug 11
Well, I am, though I fall short at times on that character. I've learned that to become a good listener one must develop empathy. It would be difficult of impossible to listen without this character. To be a good listener, one must feel the how the other person feel about the situation he/she is in.
@francesca5 (1344)
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5 Aug 11
well i like to think i am a good listener, but that is not necessarily the same as actually being one.
i have known a few people who like to talk but don't listen, and i have tried, deliberately, not to do that. but i don't know if i have succeeded.
