Listen Up
Excellent article on how lamely most of us listen and what we can do about it.
Fave fact:
Other studies indicate that our listening skill suffers as we get older. Ralph G. Nichols… says that “if we define the good listener as one giving full attention to the speaker, first-grade children are the best listeners of all.”
Nichols describes an experiment conducted with the cooperation of Minneapolis teachers from first grade through high school. Each teacher involved was asked to interrupt classes and suddenly ask pupils “what were you thinking about?” or “what was I talking about?”
Results were discouraging but informative. The answers of first and second graders showed that more than 90 percent were listening. Percentages dropped in higher grades. In junior high school classes, only 44 percent of the students were listening. In high school classes, the average dropped to 28 percent.
Read the rest to get back to listening like a first grader.
Via Daily Good.
