Do you really listen?
September 10, 2006 by Milo Riano
MJ has this post on 5 simple tips to becoming a better listener. I remembered this article I read more than a year ago about a study conducted by a group of people on listening skills. If my memory serves me right, there are only less than 5 percent of the people studied considered as good listeners. Are you? The study is fairly accurate because I began to pay attention to how many people are really listening to me when I say something and noticed that most of the time people would not even remember what you told them or would ask the same question twice or even more.
You could start with a simple activity of paying attention to what you say and to whom you said it to, and later on you will realize if the person hasn’t listened to you at all in another conversation.
Anyways, start beefing up your listening capabilities with MJ’s post.