Entry 4: Listening Skills date : 20th April 2021 (week 2) Topics: Listening Skills Duration of time spent on this entry: 2 hours Personal reflection I believe people refuse to listen most of the time unless the things we are going to say are actually regarding them. People grow to be narcissist types of people and believe they are holier than thou, for example teacher and student, boss and employee and in the asian community hot issues are between parents and children. It's hard to gain people's attention if it's not something that is interesting like gossip for example. Listening is not easy to be honest, even sometimes I find myself fidgeting just to focus on a person talking, especially nowadays all the class requires extra attention due to it being online. But if it's something that is more intimate or close to the heart I can fully focus without being anxious most of the time maybe because the feeling of getting judged is not there. For example, does he or she care if I listen to them? Or do I need to respond to everything I listen to? Sometimes I wonder why I am tired by just listening to something. Why is it different when we listen to music but not when we listen to someone talking? This is the kind of question running in my mind most of the time. But what I'm wondering the most is are they able to comprehend after listening to me from the start till the end of a conversation. This is where I feel like listening skills are crucial and need to be taught from a young age.
Figure 6 shows the percentage of us communicating and listening 12
