Good reminder on one of the most under-rated and ignored skills.

I personally believe it should be a required course in all elementary and high schools. Grade point averages would rise like a rocket.

The fact it's not taught in schools demonstrates how much it's overlooked, underrated and taken for granted.

Let's face it, although algebra, history and biology is important. A persons listening skills is something they'll use the rest of their lives (even determine the grades they'll get in algebra, history or biology).

Plus, it will determine their success or failure in every other area of their life, it could even save their life.

People who don't listen well, fill our jails, prisons, mental hospitals, welfare rolls, divorce courts, and juvenile institutions.

Becoming a good listener is a good way to learn more and more.
Thanks for sharing.

Thank you Xwolf. Goes to show we really do need each other here...
Last night was an awful night for me. I had no interest in looking at any screen or talking to anybody. Completely out of ideas and feeling as though I had no others, I sat in darkness looking into darkness.
Avoiding confrontation with people and not considering visiting Warriorforum.
Today, I shook it off and here I am.

If I seen this post last night it would have changed the night went. Spending hours and hours writing and recalling thoughts, I have forgotten this important skill of listening to others. Putting this aside, I became too depended on my own thoughts forgetting to use everyone else as well. When people realize how we don't have to be a genius personally to be intelligent.

A unity of thoughts begin with being a good listener. Being a good listener will unlock already known skills, or recall memories you may never recall by yourself.

To be a good listener you must be curious .

I think you make a solid point in your video that active listening is tiring. It's tiring because it is actual work. The best active listeners imagine themselves "in the shoes" of the other person. This helps to relate to them on an intellectual and emotional level.