“Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” –Stephen R. Covey. Yes, this does happen rather frequently; unfortunately, altogether too often, most of all because conversation does not occur between people from any and all walks of life anymore. This is because everyone is so guarded and
Month: September 2018
A Key towards Opening a School to Close a Prison: Education as a Life Skill
In this changing time of globalization, education should inevitably be considered an effective process pertinent to real life; education and its organisms have gone through a phase of shift in this global age. Educational purposes and objectives, for instance, have witnessed change in teaching-learning methodologies, learning situations, purposeful thinking, and the employability of tools. For
Why Do We Listen?
“Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” This is a Stephen R. Covey quote that has my narcissistic ass feeling personally attacked. Despite my current state of butthurt, Covey has a valid point. His point is so valid that it made up an entire unit in
The intent of listening is to understand, in its purest form
I believe most people’s habit is to listen to respond rather than to listen to understand. I think there are subtle differences between both, but the outcomes can vary greatly if we are to foster healthy relationships with family, friends and co-workers. Moreover, from the perspective of personal development, listening to understand is more effective
Present day slavery in the United States of America
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” -Victor Hugo. The age of innovation is dying in the US. What once was a bastion of scientific knowledge, creative thinking, literary genius, and engineering know-how has become a desolate wasteland of group-think and nigh slave labor. What irony that a country that shed blood to