Listening is a fundamental aspect of daily communication that most of us take for granted because it takes no effort to hear what someone is communicating to you, but the problem lies therein. Hearing is a biological process that occurs naturally and involunt

Personally, I have the most trouble with the final stage of the communication process. I often find myself frustrated due to my lack of short-term memory compared to others around me. I have thought about supplements that aid in memory retention to cure my ailment but have never thought that my lack of retention could be caused by weak communicational skills. Statistically, immediately after getting a message only fifty-percent of that message is remembered and after eight hours, a paltry twenty-percent. My frustrations occur in all highly specified aspects of my daily communication though. I find myself struggling to recall things that are said late at night, and things that I am not particularly interested in. Naturally, as a teenager, I am not always fully engaged and interested in what my professor may have to say, which is unfortunate because there is a direct correlation between my knowledge retention and my GPA. Also, I stumble upon embarrassing instances often when I try to remember the name of the person I was just introduced to. I don’t forget their name because I am not interested in what it is, but because I am typically more anxious to hear what they have to say I tend to just see our introduction as a mere waste of time.

I believe that if I attempt to make my interactions more memorable I could remedy my communicative deficiency. I would attempt to do this by staying involved while listening by possibly participating in, or associating what the speaker is saying to my own personal experience. I will also attempt to organize the information I receive by identify key points of the message and by regrouping the material received.

There are four major stages in the listening process: attendance, interpretation, response, and recollection. These stages serve as a guideline to the fundamentals of being a good listener. The attendance stage involves the decision to commit both mental and physical energy to the process. We give

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