How to listen

Everybody preaches us how to present things. We always trained by our professors that how to talk about the subject but never trained one of the most important skills how to listen. I have listened this most often in my life that a good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good speaker. You can’t have a very beautiful mind if you don’t know how to listen. Listening is itself a good art to learn things. A great philosopher said somewhere. If you keep your mouth shut you can learn more in spite of arguing on the matter which you don’t know well.

A good listener shows that he or she is paying attention to what is being said.

A good listener shows the respect towards the speaker.

A good listener shows that he/she is genuinely interested in what he/she hears.

A good listener gets the value from what he heard

A good listener always creates value for himself after getting the knowledge of the subject by hearing.

All of the above are to do with real attitude not fake one. Unless you are going to talk all the time you must listen most of the time. So it is advisable to work on it and get most of the information out of it. In this case problem is nobody wants to listen. Everyone think that he is a great speaker without having any knowledge of the subject. Most of the times we see that among us some people always want to answer each and every answers even they have hardly any information. Are you one of them who don’t listen to any one????