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            What makes Listening more Complicated.
             Listening, like communication is a learned behavior, so we can learn to overcome the obstacles that interfere with our listening effectiveness. In other words we can choose to be an effective listener by keeping an open mind towards what ever we hear, or create barriers that will hinder effective listening, thereby making listening so much more complicated than hearing. The factors that make listening much complicated are consideration of the topic or the speaker as either interesting or uninteresting, criticizing the speaker instead of the message, concentrating on details, instead of main ideas, avoiding difficult listening situations, tolerating or failing to adjust to distractions, and faking attention. .
             Listening, when taken for granted becomes much complicated, for instance deciding that a subject/topic or speaker is uninteresting or boring. This is like having a perception of something negatively; our perception definitely affects our behavior towards that thing or person. It simply means that the level of interest and the amount of importance we place on a subject or speaker usually govern how much effort we put into listening. An example is Dr Huges of the mathematics department, who is seen by a lot of students as a bad and boring teacher, so a lot of students placed in his class make up their mind before each lecture that it's going to be as usual, with such attitude I believe they will never understand him when he is teaching because they hardly listen to it. From our text we were told that the main difference between hearing and listening is understanding.
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             Consequently we tend to criticize the speaker instead of the message, this happens when we focus on the superficial elements of a person's delivery style or appearance.
             Most time in church for example, people hardly listen to the message when a minister is preaching or the choir singing because we are concentrating on the superficial makeup's of the ministers, their mismatched shirt and tie, bizarre earrings, or the speakers" facial expressions that they miss the message.


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