The book went into improving retention and revival. In learning how to decide what needs to be stored in our memory can improve our retention. One way to do this is to rehearse and review ideas that need to be stored. Note taking and reviewing the thoughts one listens to mentally can help improve retention. Paraphrasing, or repeating a message in your own words so that speaker can check your understanding and asking important question will improve retention. These little listening tips seemed easy to do and I felt this was the most interesting concepts in the book. Most textbooks go over the basics of active listening. The text for this class went deeper into listening and explained the value of improving retention, improving interpretation, and improving attention.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Question #3
I found the section on listening most interesting in the book. Learning how receivers can improve decoding and the different ways to listen helped me a lot on a personal level. I learned that listening takes skill and mental effort. The book gives great advice explaining how we should remind ourselves to give our attention to those who are talking to us. I started using this approach of consciously reminding myself to use good listening skills and it proved to be a good reminder and I feel my conversations have bee better.
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Hi Chip9,
ReplyDeleteI liked the concept about Listening as well. Interesting how there is a difference between listening and hearing. Also it is interesting how sometimes we can talk to someone but now have them listen to us. Just like how we only heard our parents lecture but not listen to their lecture.
In regards to retention and revival, I would really like to improve my ability to retain what I have learned over the years. And you are right, a good way is to repeat it to yourself over and over again for the ideas to be stored. You mentioned another good way is paraphrasing; I actually find that to be the best way to retain. When you are paraphrasing an idea, you kind of make it your own. Before you can paraphrase something, you have to understand what it means. Then you have to put it into your own words.
Then I also agree with you that this book is a really good communication text that goes into deep details about the major concepts of communication. I really do recommend this book for future use. Usually I sell my books after the class is over, but I am definitely keeping this book.
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