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Describe situations where you might hear but not listen

Discussion

Describe situations where you might hear but not listen. Do you have to actively listen all the time to be an effective communicator? Why/why not? Review the material in the text on the challenges to active listening, and then choose at least three challenges that you relate to the most. Suggest ways to overcome each of them.

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Situations when you might hear but not listen

            Hearing and listening are different concepts. Hearing is simply an act of perceiving sound through the ear. If a person is not hearing-impaired hearing simply takes place. Some of the situations when a person hears something but not listen to it when a person is busy reading a newspaper or book at home and hears the neighbors speaking, the radio or television. In hearing, a person cannot process the information he or she is getting. This is unlike in listening where the brain is actively involved in processing information…

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