Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Listening post 1
Listening is one of the most important components of communication, and can definitely be a challenging task for me. I have definitely been known to zone out during class. i am physically present and mentally I can be totally checked out. This can be a problem especially if the professor says something important. It's like I can hear the noise but I have no idea what he is saying. There have been many times where I have had to ask a classmate for the information because I wasn't paying attention. This would go under the phase on selective attention. If the material seems important and completely relevant to me than I will tune in and take notes. If the material is really hard to understand or seems to be boring I will not pay as close attention, which as you may know, can have bad consequences. I enjoyed this chapter and found the information really interesting and really relate able. Listening is where i can really struggle when communicating and I definitely need to work on it :)
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I think class is the most difficult part of listening so far. I think later on in life I’ll be tuning out people in board meetings but for now the challenge is in classroom lectures as well. I listen and watch the speaker talk with their body language as well as engage in the PowerPoint but a lot of the times I find myself as well letting information pass by me. Selective attention comes into play a lot with this example when the teacher says something like “This may be something that is on the final…” then I decided it’s time to listen up and gather what it is I just missed. I think all people do this form of communication listening in some way in life; no one is innocent from it. There is always skills with listening everyone can work out =)
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