Struggling with Active Listening Skills

4.3 Are You Really Listening?

This link provided to me in a set of lecture notes (Module 5) was very helpful to me. For as long as I can remember i catch myself between either being very focused in class or completely zoning out and missing a lot of information. Some of the topics in this link like “listening with your whole body” is a skill I had not heard of or considered prior to reading this material. One thing that I have started doing is turning my phone off for shorter classes or turning it to “do not disturb” and only checking it when necessary. The hard part about not having my phone on me though is the fact that I have four sisters, I work a sales job where people call me everyday and I am a team leader for my Army unit so i constantly receive information from all sorts of people. I have started searching for an app that can auto reply (something like what people do with email while on vacation) while im studying or in class and let the person know that way they do not try to contact me again. I am awful about letting technology distract me and definitely want to try some of these active listening skills and turn off/ put away my biggest distractions during class and study time.

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