The 7 HABITS of Highly Effective TEENS ( Pg 161-180)

From 161 to 180 pages are fifth habits. 5 habit is ' SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO TO BE UNDERSTOOD.' He said 'Five Poor Listening Styles' such as spacing out, pretend listening, selective listening, word listening and self-centered listening. Spacing out is when someone is talking to us but we ignore them because our mind is wandering off in another galaxy. It means 'out of it." Pretend listening is more common. such as "yeah" "uh-huh" "cool" "sounds great" the speaker usually get the hint and feel that he or she is not important enough to be heard. selective listening is we pay attention to the only one part of intersting things.
Word listening is when we pay attention to someone, we only listen only to the words. such as "What do you think of Ronaldo?" you might say "he is cool",but if you have more sensitive, you might think to question "do you think Ronaldo likes me?" It is not good. Last thing is Self-centered listening. It is point of view. is is from our point of view.


My opinion: I think this part is shorter than other parts. Therefore it was hard to understand to me. However, Five poor listening styles were very good for me because i think my listening styles are very bad, so i want to change my listening styles. I think word listening styles is very important because it is realted to second laguage. When i came here, l heard just some words becuase i couldn't hear and understand everything. However, now, i can understand more words. However, i usually hear just some word. Therefore, i will change my habit.