Tuesday, October 03, 2006
context
In my conversations with people so far in regards to listening in our society, I have leaned that many people feel that they have to tune out most things that are happening around them in order to focus. A few issues relating to listening have been raised again and again in my conversations so far with the public. I have learned that we listen, actively listen, with a goal in mind – we listen to learn (about something in particular), listen to gain certain information (about something relevant or interesting), listen for what we can comment on or critique, listen because the person speaking is relevant or interesting. One point came out that I found interesting is that listening sometimes happens to fill the gaps between when we can say something. How about engaging in irrelevant listening for the sake of listening?
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Do you mean to be an active listener of irrelevant things?
Anonymous has missed the point
An active listener removes all the filters of self and becomes an empty space in which words drift in and float around painting colors of emotions Convert the listening component of conversation into music (which is a holistic experience the notes and harmonies being like the symbolic signs of words ) the sum of which compounds into an emotional response
Neil Furby Wellington NZ
Hi Melissa
One of the reasons that I drive a diesel car is
because every time I start it, I have to listen for a
handfull of seconds. When you turn the ignition on,
you wait for the glow plugs to heat up and then switch
off. The solenoid makes a very quiet "click" .
IMHO, listening has got nothing to do with
preconceptions or ideas. Waiting for an entrance into
a converstion is not real listening. Listening is more
about the "small, still voice within"- the one that
rarely gets heard by anybody. shouted down
Nobody is listening to anybody or anything. Robert
Crumb drew it.
I just saw "New World"- a story about listening.
Has Dion gotten to California yet? WE have been having
weird weather here. It was snowing a week ago and two
days later we had gale force winds and 32* celcius
(hot) temp.
Your idea for a listening blog is pretty brilliant.
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