Active Listening

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We can all recall situations where we have utterly failed to listen to what

someone else is saying. For various reasons, we are simply not taking

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We can all recall situations where we have utterly failed to listen to what

someone else is saying. For various reasons, we are simply not taking in

anything useful. How many times have you been introduced to a person by

name only to not know what their name is thirty seconds later?

The reason this happens is because you have failed to actively listen. By

italicizing the word „actively„, it might suggest that actively listening is

different to plain old listening. In truth, there are only two states when we are

communicating with another person: actively listening, and not really

listening.

Active listening is the art of listening for meaning. For us to gain meaning

from the words of another person, we need to be listening carefully. Meaning

is not necessarily assured even when we are actively listening, but we will at

least know that we don’t understand, and can therefore ask the correct

questions to gain enlightenment.

Active listening must become a habit because it is the foundation of effective

communication. Imagine a troop commander not really listening to his orders

and attacking the wrong target. A failure to actively listen can certainly have

dire consequences.

Many people give the appearance of listening but fail to really hear what is

being said to them. They assume that listening is such a basic sense that it will

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