Power to listen

Because mainly not the topic makes you to be attentive and good listener. The devotion to help the speaker, to understand him/her, whatever his topic can be. Nonsense, or complex ideas. We like to hear out people because this is the best way to obtain their traits. Their secrets. How are they ticking inside. Because if you want to give useful advice, you must get into his skin. To feel like him. To think like him. And we like to explore humans, to understand them ,and most of all: To take their situations like mine. Its like a RPG game: You get into anothers skin, and you have to cope with their challenges. But with your own knowledge and wisdom. Religious groups are the same too. They wish to share their belief by implementing them into your situation. They wont listen to anyone more than 5 minutes if they wouldnt want to share their thoughts/help you out. If you want to be a good listener, you must be open minded as you can. You must understand anyones feelings and reasons, even if they are stupid from the start. Empathy. And of course, you have to be interested by The Meaning of Life:P.

It depends mostly of the personal character. Some people know to listen, most persons don't and of those who don't, some are able to learn it, but it's not for everyone. In my opinion, you need to have a talent for it. You need to be a patient person and willed to listen to others, you have to be able to maintain your concentration and carry on listening to the other person, even if you don't agree with what the other person is telling you. Yoy have to be a peacefull person and a bit politic.

Here is my opinion: If you are a good listener in one topic, then you are interested in that topic. But if you are a good listener in many many topics, then you are showing your indifference. However listening to show our respect to the talking person is applicable in all.

I think it is natural for a person to be a good listener. Whatever tips you give a person to have focus and listen, you won't be able to help that person unless he himself would learn how to find interest in what he's listening. So what i'm saying is, it must come within the person himself.

I think you mentioned answer in your own post. It is the interest in the subject that is being listened to that encourages a person to listen. It is not bad not to listen something that does not interests you. It won;t be a good thing to make you forcibly "listen" to things that you do not feel like to listen. We should also have a habit to listen to others even if they are speaking something not of our interest while in a conversation. It is nice gesture of respecting others views.

i think that is coz one's habit and interest as you say.take myself for a example,if the class seem very interesting to me i would listen to it very focus.and i think that religion group can stay more time in discuss just coz they have some faith in there heart. to be honest ,i wish i can more focus when i am in class

I always remembered this verses from the Holy Book, "Quick to Listen, Slow to speak". It is indeed a good guidance. We will learn more when we listen. The psychiatrist has the gift of listening, they can listen for hours, how they do it? For me, I am a natural listener. I love to listen to people telling their experiences, their stories, I find it very educational and interesting. In the church I also spend nearly an hour and half listening to the preacher preach about God's words. BUT I couldn't stand if the person talk nonsense for hours and repeating the same old stories again and again. Then I think back again, if the person is our love ones, like our old parents, it is good that we listen to them even though it is the same old stories. Show some respect and interest and participate in the topics that they talk. Learn to appreciate their golden years and time spent with us. Be appreciative