Listening is a 10 part Skill

While reading this I learned that to make something more interesting while listening, you have to ask yourself questions like how this can be useful to yourself and if any of the ideas are worthwhile. By asking yourself questions like that, you have to take in all the information that is given during a conversation. I've noticed a lot of people get too excited when someone speaks, but I learned that you shouldn't do that until you clearly understand what is being said. You might interpret things differently when you don't fully understand what the other person was trying to convey. Distractions are inevitable and poor listeners get distracted easily, so you have to fight these distractions to be a good listener, and when you can't get rid of the distractions, you need to work on your concentration. And the last interesting thing I learned is that we think faster than we speak and that we have about 400 words of thinking time in a minute while a person is talking. We should take that extra time to our advantage and use it to think about what is being said.