Saturday, September 29, 2012
Listening Is A 10 Part Skill -True Story!
I believe if I had not read this little selection, I would probably still be falling asleep in my lecture classes. What I learned from this is that listening has to become almost like a job. We have to find the positive side and interesting facts within our listening, there is no such as thing as an uninteresting subject. Nichols also makes the point that we should judge the subject and not the way it is presented to us. In comparison to my life, I love politics but in my poly sci. lecture class all he does is talk and talk, but I need to overcome that and find my focal point. I'm glad the point was made that taking notes is essential because I've been taking cornell notes since my freshman year in high school so I know how to pick out important information and take quick notes. I think overall, listening can be a challenge to some and a piece of cake for others -we must find a love for it though because that is the only way we will be able to renovate our lives.
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Your post about listening as a 10 part skill was very interesting! It is almost like a job because there is so much work involved, but it is a great model to follow. You are right; there are non uninteresting subjects because everything we hear can be viewed as interesting in different ways. Even though we are often faced with difficult professors who talk nonstop, we should be able to pick and choose what we write down and write down only the post important points when taking notes. Using this listening model can be very helpful when it comes to learning new things. Great post this week!
ReplyDeleteI found your post to be very interesting. It is hard sometimes to find a lecture interesting if you don’t care about the topic at all. It makes a lot of sense that you should find something in the lecture to be interested in. I have the same problem with one of my professors. I am very interested in criminal justice but my criminal justice class is just so boring. My professor doesn’t do a good job with explaining the information. I just focus on her body language and how she talks because it is very weird. I have that class at 7:30am and it is really hard to pay attention in the first place. I agree with you that taking notes will help you pay attention and learn what is being taught. That is how i get through the class and actually learn something.
ReplyDeleteI thought your post was really interesting. I like how you compare active listening to a job. This is such an important part which I don’t think a lot of understand. Listening is like a job because it does require a lot of work and attention. However, I think many of us ignore this fact and just brush it off as if listening was passive. When we are listening we need to find something that is interesting even if we find the subject to be boring or dull. As active listeners we need to be able to pick something interesting out of our conversations with people. This will help us stay interested and in tune with what the other people are saying.
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