![]() ![]() Another found we forget 50% to 80% of what we learn after one month and 97% to 98% after one month. In fact, one study found people forget 40% of what they learned in 20 minutes and 70% in six days (University of Waterloo, 2022). And, even if I do understand French, if I don’t take notes, it’s likely I would quickly forget what was said. While I might understand “Ici Radio Brazzaville,” it’s highly unlikely I would understand a newscast in French since I don’t speak or read French. When engaged in mindful listening, it is important not only that we understand the message but that we remember it. When a listener engages in competitive interrupting, he simply wants to take over the conversation. This isn’t a case where the listener wants more information. Also closely related to stage hogism is competitive interrupting where listeners use interruptions to take control of the conversation. Closely related to stage hogism is a rebuttal tendency, debating a speaker’s point and formulating your reply while the speaker is still speaking. Watch this video for an example of a stage hog in action. Stage hogs are only interested in what they want to say. For example, someone hears wine is heart-healthy, but ignores the part about moderate consumption (two glasses, at most, for men, and just one for women), exercise, and adequate sleep. ![]() In a word, we hear what we want to hear and ignore the rest. We also (hopefully) engage in mindful listening to our professors, our bosses, and our parents or partners.Īnother poor listening practice involves selective listening. When we pay attention to important messages, we engage in mindful listening. “ you’ll pay attention because that’s one of the major access points to the PGCC campus. But if you’re in Maryland driving to Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) and you hear the reporter say, “In Maryland, on the Capital Beltway Inner Loop at Maryland 214. If you’re in Maryland, you won’t even hear that, you’ll completely ignore it because it has no impact on you. Driving along, you might hear the traffic reporter tell about an accident in Virginia on I-66. If you live in the Washington, D.C., area, we have an all-news radio station, WTOP, that broadcasts weather and traffic every 10 minutes, beginning at eight minutes after the hour. One of the facts of modern life is that we are susceptible to message overload.Ĭonsider a drive to class. In fact, mindless listening can be a valuable strategy for many of the messages we receive. Mindless listening is not always a bad thing. Test yourself now: Can you list five key points in William Ury’s TED Talk video? If you go to church when you leave church, can you discuss the sermon? If not, you have engaged in mindless listening. All too often, we engage in mindless listening. On the other hand, when I heard “Hier ist der Deutsche Welle” I was listening to the German shortwave station.īut let’s face it. When I heard “Ici Radio France” I was listening to the French equivalent of the Voice of America. When I heard “Ici Radio Brazzaville,” I was listening to a station in French Equatorial Africa (now the Republic of the Congo). I didn’t understand much French, but when I heard “Ici Radio Canada,” I knew I was listening to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ![]() As a teenager, I used to engage in shortwave listening, using a special radio to hear stations in other countries. We can attend, even when we don’t understand a foreign language. The process of paying attention is called attending. On the other hand, when a person speaks – whether in person, on TV, or on digital media –when his voice vibrates off our eardrum, we receive a message, provided we have been paying attention. But none of those convey a message to us. sound enters our ear canal, vibrates off our eardrum, and we perceive the sound in our brains. A tree falls, a car screeches, a gunshot rings out, thunder booms. It’s different than hearing, which is the process of physically receiving sound. What is listening? It’s the active process of making meaning out of another person’s spoken message. \)īelieve it or not, it appears that one reason elementary school children fail to develop adequate reading comprehension skills is because they haven’t developed good listening comprehension skills. ![]()
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