MEGO - My Eyes Glazed Over (happens when we're really bored) Ways to Listen
- Appreciative - what happends when we listen to good music
- Discriminative - picking out one sound from an assortment of sounds
- Critical - hardest form of listening; understanding and deciphering what you're hearing
- Emphatic - counselors and psychiatrists use this to better understand their patients
Bad listening habits
- Tuning out - pay attention to the speech and stop daydreaming about something else
- Faking attention - this is just rude
- Getting distracted - don't think about anything but the speech
- Criticizing the speaker - the speaker may not always share your point of view
- Jumping to conclusions - you aren't always able to understand the speaker immediately
- Overreacting - don't let your emotions get the best of you
- Interrupting - listen to everything that the speaker has to say
Strategies to remember names - repeat the name, relate it to something well known, make an effort to remember it
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