How To Improve Your LISTENING SKILLS | LBCC Study Skills

looks good so we are going to go ahead and start um... one quick i guess word of introduction to the workshop today this is technically the first of two parts uh... next week we're going to talk about taking better lecture notes it's really hard when the teacher is talking full-speed and that's pretty much how they all talk to know what to write and how to write it and just gets very confusing one of the reasons that this is part one is because if you're not mentally in the room listening carefully you can't take good notes and so many people struggle with their concentration with their uh... listening skills so the idea is i want to try to get that stronger today and then if you're able to be back next week i'll teach you how to actually physically write notes in a way that might be different than what you do now and might be better might be more helpful okay so that's kind of the idea here's what i want to say to begin with whenever students see the title of this workshop improving your listening skills i get some really interesting responses from people people look at me and they say you're gonna teach us how to listen and i said well actually yes and people say well i already know how to do that been doing that all my life and hearing and listening are not the same thing at all and most people as i said are really not good at it and we're gonna talk about that to start with but here's my little uh... quick introduction to this whole thing and that is um... i talk to students really often and i don't know if this is gonna sound familiar to you but i talk to students and i go up to one and i say do you ever have a hard time concentrating when somebody's talking to you and here's their answer...wh..what yeah okay good you come to me with me to the workshop uh... people's ability to concentrate is kinda scary and so what we're gonna do is we're gonna start with problems we don't want to think about those too much but there are a lot of reasons why people have a hard time concentrating we're gonna talk about three of them really fast and then we're going to focus on solutions it's always nice when there are twice as many solutions as problems too bad life isn't quite like that but anyway that's sort of encouraging so um... out of all the reasons you might think of why a person has trouble concentrating some of those are going to be addressed over here but i wanna show you three of them and what i'd like to have you do while i'm explaining these is to figure out something for yourself i'm not going to actually ask you i just want you to think about it which one of these three are you guilty of the most often in other words it's your personal weakness and one thing i know for sure this might surprise you i know even though i don't know anybody in here really i know that all of you suffer from all three of these and how can i know that's it's 'cause you're a human being you'll understand as i go through 'em ok so the first one which is a major problem for a lot of people is what's usually referred to as pseudo listening okay and what does

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Length: 48min 47sec (2927 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 22 2011