1). Think of a recent situation in which you found listening difficult. Which one (or more) of the four phases presented the most difficulty for you? Why? How could this have been overcome?
A recent situation I can think of in which I found listening difficult was a few days ago in one of my class. While well-known talkers in my class chatting about the latest NCAA (basketball), my instructor was talking about a less-interesting part of the subject. In this situation, out of the four components of listening, sensing or hearing the message was the most difficult for me. I was listening the sounds that are coming out of my instructor’s mouth; however I was not hearing the message. The reason is that the topic (basketball) was very appealing to me, than my instructor’s topic. Since, sensing is “a voluntary act whereby we chose certain sounds and noises to pay attention to, while avoiding others,” I must give my full attention to those sounds that are coming from the instructor’s mouth and avoid the disruption from others. A good technique for avoiding or overcoming with kind of distractions during class is to sit in the front, or I should choose to sit away from these classmates who bring up topics that are distractive.
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I first like to say that I completely understand where you are coming from because I always had a hard time paying attention to my professor when I was sitting in the back of the classroom too. Sitting in the back of the classroom I would hear distraction that would be more interesting than what the teacher was saying which then will either make me miss out on notes or either I would fall asleep. Nevertheless, I found that sitting in the front of the classroom like you said was helpful because although the teacher sometime topic wasn’t interesting, I was still attentive and was not distracted by others. “The message we attune to are the ones that have some “preprogrammed” Importance for us”. (p.131) This proved the distractions that was causing me to not be attentive was more relevant and important to me than class, however I had to realize that sitting in the front doesn’t make you a loser but more attentive to understand concepts in class.
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